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Teach Us to Pray 


By Charles and Cora 
Fillmore 



UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY 
KANSAS CITY 6, MISSOURI 

1946 




This is a standard Unity book, 
which first appeared in 1941. 


FOREWORD 


When Jesus’ disciples asked Him to teach them 
how to pray He warned them against making a dis- 
play o£ their praying in order to be seen of men. 
They should retire to their “inner chamber” and 
pray to the Father who sees in secret and rewards 
openly. Then He said, “After this manner therefore 
pray.” The Lord’s Prayer was given as a sample: 
not to be followed literally. It is a petition according 
to the American revision; but according to Fenton’s 
translation it is a series of affirmations^ as follows: 

“Our Father in the Fleavens; Your Name must be 
being hallowed; 

“Your kingdom must be being restored ; 

“Your will must be being done, both in Heaven 
and upon the Earth. 

“Give us to-4ay our to-morrow's bread; 

“And forgive us our faults, as we forgive those 
offending us, for You would not lead us into temp- 
tation, but deliver us from its evil.” 

As in all matters where we seek divine help we are 
free to use any words we choose or no words at all. 

I “Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, 

Uttered or unexpressed.” 

Prayer in man is a conscious expression of the up- 
ward trend of nature found everywhere. So every 
; impulse or desire of the soul for life, love, light, is 
a prayer. 

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Job gave a prayer formula when he said, "Thou 
shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established 
unto thee.” 

Jesus put the same idea in these words: "What- 
soever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.” 

All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is 
based upon this law of soul urge. 

What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm 
will be yours, if you "faint not.” 

When we frame our desires in sound words and 
place them before our indwelling Lord, we are using 
intelligently tlie supreme law of God in bringing 
into manifestation that which He has implanted in 
us. 

A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without 
sincerity in it, a prayer without soul in it, a prayer 
without Spirit in it is a fruitless prayer. 

But above all practice the presence of God in 
prayer. Divine Mind has given us all potentialities, 
in prayer we recognize it as the source of these, and 
with a right understanding of our relation to it our 
soul grows great with infinite capacity, all potential- 
ity. "With God all things are possible,” "All things 
whatsoever the Father hath are mine.” 

We have been so persistently taught that prayer 
consists in asking God for some human need that 
we have lost sight of our spiritual identity and have 
become a race of praying beggars. God is Spirit in 
Whom we "live, and move, and have our being.” 
We are the offspring of this Spirit and can make 
f conscious contact with it by turning our attention 

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away from material things and thinking about Spirit. 
As we practice this kind of prayer our innate Spirit 
showers its life energies into our conscious mind and 
a great soul expansion follows. 

Jesus described this in the following words: 

"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine 
inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy 
Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in 
secret shall recompense thee.” 

This "inner chamber” of the soul has been vari- 
ously named by Scripture writers. It is called the 
"secret place of the Most High” and the “holy of 
holies,” and Jesus named it "the Father ... in me” 
and "the kingdom of God . . . within you.” What 
we need to know above all is that there is a place 
within our soul where we can consciously meet God 
and receive a flood of new life into not only our 
mind but also our body. 

, This understanding shows us that prayer is more 
i than asking God for help in this physical world; it 
^ is in its highest sense the opening up in our soul 
: of an innate spiritual umbilical cord that connects 
us with the Holy Mother, from whom we can receive 
' a perpetual flow of life. This is the beginning of 
'eternal life for both soul and body, the essential 
' teaching of Jesus, whidi He demonstrated in over- 
coming death. 

We have earnestly sought to know and tell others 
how to pray, and this book is our very best exposition 
of the subject. Language has not yet been invented 
to tell all the wonders that we have found since we 


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began opening our minds to the Spirit in prayer. 
We have discovered enough to convince us that the 
body can be so charged with spiritual life through 
prayer that it will overcome death, as promised by 
Jesus Christ. 

Do not enlarge the defects of this book until they 
darken its truths, but accept the urge to begin the 
practice of prayer and through it make contact with 
the source of your being. Thus you will prove that, 
as Job wisely taught, 

'’There is a spirit in man, 

And the breath of the Almighty giveth them under- 
standing." 




Foreword - - - - - - - - - - 3 

The God to Wliom We Pray - - - * “ - 11 

True Prayer - - - - - - - - - 16 

Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence - - - 22 

Healing through tlie Prayer of Faith - - - - 27 

Prosperity through Prayer 33 

Contacting Spiritual Substance 37 

Joyous Prayer 43 

How to Handle the Psychic Forces of Consciousness - 47 

Spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man Master - - 55 

Fulfillment 60 

Unfoldment - - 66 

Thought Images 70 

Tlie Spoken Word 73 

Thou Shalt Decree 77 

Be Strong in the Lord 80 

Face to Face with God 83 

Not Magic but Law - - - - • - - 86 

Spiritual Soul Therapy - - - - - - - 90 

Health and Prosperity - - ^ . 93 

Tlioughts Are Things - - 96 

The Supermind - - > •' - - - - - 100 

Cheerfulness Heals - - - 104 



Love Harmoni2es - - - - - - - -107 

Casting Out Fear 112 

Spiritual Hearing 116 

Light of Life lip 

Thought Substance - - 122 

Intensified Zeal 126 

The Unreality of Error 129 

Joy Radiates Health 132 

"Selah!” ... - I35 

Spiritualizing the Intellect 138 

The Sevenfold Cleansing 148 

Prayer and Faith 157 

The Healing Word 164 

Six-Day Prayer Treatments 175 

Questions I93 



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Earth's crammed with heaven, 

And every common bush afire with God; 

But only he who sees takes off his shoes, 

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. 

— ^Elizabeth Browning 

O MNIPRESENCE, omniscience, omnipotence are 
verities o£ Being and are facts of existence. 
The mind of God, creative Mind, is per- 
petually moving upon siipermind ideas and through 
them bringing man and the universe into existence. 

Creative Mind is everywhere present; yet while it 
is within the mind of man it lies beyond the con- 
sciousness of sense. 

Omnipresence is that spiritual realm which can be 
penetrated only through the most highly acceler- 
ated mind action, as in prayer. Thus in unfolding 
this inner kingdom we are dealing with a reality be- 
yond the ordinary comprehension of man. 

To the superbly tuned mind and brain of Jesus 
Divine Mind was a soil eager with vibrant life and 
light and substance, which He used to produce the 
finest of materials for both character and body 
building. 

Spiritual character building is from within out- 


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ward. Spiritual character lives in man; it is what 
God has engraved on man’s soul, ready for develop- 
ment through man’s spiritual efforts. It is a reserve 
force of organized victory over carnality. 

Man builds spiritual character by consciously func- 
tioning in God-Mind, where, laying hold of spiritual 
ideas, through Christ he realizes the truth they con- 
tain; and as he thus weaves them into his soul con- 
sciousness they become a part of his very nature. 

Our most effective prayers are those in which we 
rise above all consciousness of time and space. In 
this state of mind we automatically contact the Spirit 
of God. Indeed when we elevate our consciousness 
to that of Jesus Christ, the God presence becomes 
as meaningful to us as it was to Him. It is in this 
state of at-one-ment that we truly become aware of 
His sublimity and power. 

”1 go to prepare a place for you.” By getting ac- 
quainted with the one Mind as integral substance, 
we move with it and it moves with us, and thus are 
established within us new spiritual states of con- 
sciousness, a "place” where we are aware of the 
God presence as reality. 

Jesus said; "My Father is the husbandman.” "I 
am the true vine.” "Ye are the branches.” "As the 
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in 
the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.” 

, "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he 
taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, 
he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.” 

In this Scripture Jesus is revealing to us that 


THE GOD TO WHOM WE PRAY 


through Him we are bom anew, born of God, and 
that through Him we may be consciously attached 
to God — as the branch is attached to the tree — so 
that we may not wither and be cast away. 

Through Christ we are consciously attached to the 
parent stem. It behooves us to retain this attachment 
so that we may go forward in spiritual unfoldment 
and be crowned with eternal life. 

Many good people think that God is a person 
located in a place in the skies called heaven. They 
pray to Him for what they want and are satisfied. 
This is the prayer of the primitive, personal man, 
and it meets his needs; but this is not direct com- 
munion of. the Father and the Son, the communion 
with reference to which Jesus said, "I and the Father 
:are one.” We must have this more intimate ac- 
quaintanceship or communion with creative Mind 
if we are in all ways to do His will. 

God presence establishes us in ideas of honesty, 
i strength, intelligence, spiritual manhood, perfect 
i womanhood, all needed factors in the unfoldment 
i of the redeemed man, all builders of the indestruct- 
' ible body temple. 

Thus we must understand the nature of the God 
to whom we pray and awaken in ourselves that divine 
i nature through which we effect our union with God. 

God is power; man is powerful. God is wisdom: 
man is wise. God is substance: man is form and 
shape. God is love; man is loving. God is life: man 
; is the living- God is mind: man is the thinker. God 
is truth: man is truthful. 


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Many people pray to God in the same manner 
as they talk to some distant friend over the tele- 
phone. We talk too much about God, too much as 
though He were a third person in the God-man 
relationship instead of the first. It is unthinkable 
that the Creator should cause to exist a creation so 
inferior to Himself as to remove it beyond the pale 
of fellowship with Him. In his saner moments man 
knows that this is not logical or true. It is man's 
exalted ideas of God and his disparaging ideas of 
himself that have built the mental wail that sepa- 
rates them. 

I In our prayers we must meet God face to face and 
i realize that we are getting that inner assurance 
Which is the real answer to our petitions. 

A minister, after twenty years of faith preaching, 
once was persuaded by a friend to try the Truth way 
of prayer, the way of scientific silence. Afterwards 
he confessed that when he touched God and found 
Him alive he was startled. 

To Jesus the God presence was an abiding flame, 
a flame of life, of life everlasting that He felt in 
every cell and fiber of His being, making Him more 
and more alive, cleansing and purifying until He 
: became every whit perfect. During our higher real- 
izations of Truth we are often conscious of this 
; abiding flame working in us and through us. 

To Jesus God-Mind was a treasure field within 
! Him in which could be found the fulfillment of 
i every need He could possibly have. The Spirit of 
' God in Him was constantly working, yes, steadily 

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and persistently working, to transmute every natural 
impulse o£ mind and soul into a spiritual reali 2 ation 
of life. To Him the Spirit of God was working to 
satisfy His inner craving with living substance and 
intelligence, thus rounding out soul and body con- 
sciousness into the perfect expression of Divine 
Mind itself. What a glorious satisfaction God must 
feel in His perfect Son Jesus Christ, who acknowl- 
, edged His inner consciousness as one with, and as 
consciously expressing, God’s will and wisdom. God 
j Spirit, God-Mind, is not in any way confined or 
limited; it is everywhere present. The "ether” of 
science corresponds to "the kingdom of the heavens” 
taught by Jesus. Light and other forms of radiant 
: energy, the objective expression of the invisible 
spiritual forces, compose an omnipresent world more 
' marvelous than the old-time heaven. All the forces 
of modern scientific discovery are but parts of "the 
kingdom of the heavens” described in the many 
parables of Jesus. Science recognises the physical 
phases of the kingdom, ignores the mental, and 
utterly fails to comprehend the spiritual. 

The announcement of Jesus to the obtuse Nico- 
demus, "Ye mu5»t be born anew,” gives us a clew 
; to the shortsightedness of physicists. They have not 
developed the faculties of mind necessary to the dis- 
cernment of the spiritual intelligence that moves 
the physical universe, consequently they see its ma- 
terial aspects only. A new school of science must be 
developed in which the mind of the Spirit will be 
given first place. 



True Prayer 


Tmth is within ourselves; it takes no rise 
Prom outward things, whatever you may believe. 
There is an infnost center in us all, 

Where truth abides in fulness; 

. . . and, to know, 

'Rather consists in opening out a way 
Whence tjoe imprisoned splendor may escape, 
Than in effecting entry for a light 
Supposed to he without. 

— ^Robert Browning 


\ LL DOWN the ages man has been making the 
/\ spiritual effort to realize conscious union 
t \ with that innermost center where Truth in 
all its glory abides eternally. This realization can be 
accomplished only through true prayer. 

The disciples o£ Jesus earnestly importuned, 
’’Lord, teach us to pray.” Today, as disciples of the 
Master, we are asking of Him to be taught the way 
of unifying our consciousness with God-Mind. We 
would find that inner Truth which sets us free. 

His instructions to the disciples were "But thou, 
when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, 
and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is 
in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall 
recompense thee.” It is difficult to improve upon 


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TRUE PRAYER 


this simple method. Quietip entering the inner cham- 
ber within the soul, shutting the door to the external 
thoughts o£ daily life, and seeking conscious union 
with God is the highest form of prayer we know. 

The purpose of the silence is to still the activity 
of the individual thought so that the still small voice 
of God may be heard. For in the silence Spirit speaks 
Truth to us and just that Truth of which we stand 
in need. 

Prayer is man's steady ejffort to know God. There 
is an intimate connecting spirit that logically unites 
man and his source. This comiecting spirit is the 
divine logos, the Word of God, which in truth 
reveals the logic of Scripture. Because of this fact 
man instinctively feels and knows whence his help 
comes. 

God-Mind, composed of radiant ideas, vibrant 
life, glorious new inspiration, is ours to use. Since we 
are the I will man in the supreme Godhead, let us 
through Jesus Christ realize our spiritual importance. 
Let us think deeply on the divine Logos, the Word 
of God! In it is the living impetus that is bound to 
vitalize the soul of man and enable him to develop 
his latent powers. 

When we awaken even a very slight conscious- 
ness of this co-operative spirit, we become cocreators 
with God, and we find we can adjust any condition 
that comes into our life. Jesus was so completely 
unified with God-Mind that He could claim the 
words He spoke to be not His but those of the 
Father dwelling within Him. J 


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Through prayer we gain the intimate relationship 
with God that Jesus Christ must have enjoyed when 
He said, "I and the Father are one.” Jesus Christ 
is our teacher and helper. In prayer what should be 
our attitude, our interest, as we approach the divine 
presence.? I£ we knew that right now we were about 
to be ushered into the presence o£ Jesus Christ, to 
what extent would our spiritual expectancy be 
aroused? No doubt we should be thrilled through 
and through at the mere thought. Let us £eel this 
same intense interest, this same concern, as we ap- 
proach the divine presence within ourselves. It will 
add much to the readiness with which we receive 
Truth. 

Entering the Silence 

When entering the silence, according to Hosea, 
the command is ‘Take with you words, and return 
unto Jehovah.” A£ter many centuries this instruction 
still stands approved today. To the metaphysician 
it means to close the eyes and ears to the without, 
to go within and hold the mind steadily on the word 
“Jehovali” until that word illumines the whole inner 
consciousness. Then a£5rm a prayer such as “Thy 
vitalizing energy floods my whole consciousness, and 
I am healed.” 

Think what the mighty vitalizing energy o£ God, 
released through Jesus Christ, really is. Penetrate 
deeper into God consciousness within you and hold 
the prayer steadily until you attain spiritual realiza- 
tion and the logic of your own mind is satisfied. 



TRUE PRAYER 


To realize an idea in the silence is to clothe it 
with life, substance, and intelligence. To realize a 
prayer is to actualize it. To realize it is to clothe it 
with soul, to l<now there is fulfillment. 

The word of prayer has in it a living seed that 
is bound to impregnate the soil of the mind and 
cause it to bring forth fruit after its kind. 

Through Jesus Christ man has the power to re- 
alize that as I AM or I am "vitalizing health" he is the 
great central magnet functioning in omnipresence, 
around which all the healing powers of Spirit re- 
volve. He has the power to realize this truth until 
the most sacred ethers respond, and he beholds him- 
self as powerful, peaceful, perfect; healed through 
and through. It is after this fashion that we engraft 
the healing word into our very souls. 

When we were in Florida a few years ago a 
citrus fruit grower told us many interesting things 
about the growth of his orchards. There are many 
swamps in Florida. He had instructed his men to go 
out into these swamps, into the muddy black waters 
infested with creeping tilings, there to dig up the 
wild-lemon saplings with their strong, vigorous roots, 
to transplant them into well-prepared soil, and then 
to graft into them buds from his prize domestic 
fruit trees. Thus new trees laden with golden fruit 
appeared in due time. The strong, vigorous root of 
the wild lemon gave the new fruit added flavor and 
quality. 

Metaphysically the law is "If the root is holy, 
so are the branches." At least the branches are po-^ 

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tentiaiiy holy. We find that the natural man is 
usually physically strong and vigorous just as the 
root of the wild-lemon tree is. The natural man also 
struggles in a murky, negative, swampy atmosphere 
without power to bring forth spiritually, just as the 
wild-lemon sapling does. 

But the natural man can take a word of Truth 
and through "one-pointed” mind concentration can 
penetrate into the invisible, can unite his conscious- 
ness with the mind of God, and can hold a realizing 
prayer until the truth it contains is engrafted into 
his very soul. Thus just as the citrus fruit is devel- 
oped through the grafting process, so man, through 
the engrafted word, becomes a strong, positive spir- 
itual character. 

There is only one God, only one ruling power in 
all the universe; and the highest avenue through 
which God can express Himself is man. The hun- 
gering for God that is felt by man in his soul is 
really God hungering to express eternal life through 
man. God is always seeking to awaken man’s very 
soul to His mighty presence. He thus expands the 
consciousness, offering man an opportunity more 
fully and more perfectly to express Him. 

There is a partial unity with Spirit and there is a 
complete unity with Spirit. Whenever we wholly 
merge our mind with creative Mind we meet Jesus 
Christ in our consciousness, and it is when we are 
in this consciousness that our prayers are fulfilled. 
The ability to merge our mind into the one Mind 
makes a great soul of us. 



TRUE PRAYER 


Every person hungers for eternal life, and in his 
effort to satisfy this hunger every soul makes its own 
concept of God. The ancients said that an honest 
man is the noblest work of God. Ingersoll said, “An 
honest God is the noblest work of man.” 

In deed and in truth prayer is man’s spiritual ap- 
proach to God, and effective prayer does not agonize. 
Neither Jesus nor any man who has fused his soul 
with the soul of God has suffered or agonized. The 
suffering comes as a result of separation and the 
effort to return to the consciousness of Omnipres- 
ence, “my Father’s house.” 

Carlyle said, “Consider the significance of silence: 
it is boundless, never by meditating to be exhausted, 
unspeakably profitable to thee! Cease that chaotic 
hubbub, wherein thy own soul runs to waste, to 
confused suicidal dislocation and stupor; out of 
silence comes thy strength. Speech is silvern, silence 
is golden; speech is human, silence is divine. 

“Fool! thinkest thou that because no one stands 
near with parchment and black lead to note thy jar- 
gon, it therefore dies and is harmless ? Nothing dies, 
nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but 
is a seed cast into Time, and grows through all 
eternity. The Recording Angel, consider it well, is 
no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tab- 
lets thou canst burn; of the 'iron leaf’ there is no 
burning.” 


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I T IS man’s concept o£ God tliat makes prayer in- 
tellectual or spiritual. There is a vast difference 
between mere intellectual silence and that con- 
structive silence which always gives the victory within 
the soul. The intellectual silence, which is limited in 
its power, is the silence where one’s whole attention 
is fixed on the intellect. 

Herbert Spencer once said that he would gladly 
turn his life over to anyone who would live it for 
him and relieve him of its burdens. This no doubt 
can be said of hundreds of other weary ones. It re- 
veals however the fact that man lacks the true vision 
of life and is not living it as God intended. Man 
should lift his eyes "unto the hills, from whence 
cometh” his help. He should dwell much on the 
truths taught by Jesus Christ and make them a part 
of his very nature. 

Jesus ushered into the race consciousness a 
thought atmosphere that we contact in the silence by 
just affirming in spirit and in truth the name "Jesus 
Christ.” There is true magic in this name. 

When He said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor 
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,” He 
was mentally freeing man from his many trials and 

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tribulations, and leading him into the broad highway 
o£ spiritual freedom, and joy, and abundance. To 
accept Jesus Christ as Saviour means to take His 
way of thinking and acting and make it ours. 

There is a popular teaching that just accepting 
Jesus Christ as one’s Saviour will set into operation 
a spiritual magic that will save the soul from all 
past and future sins. The word "magic” implies 
accomplishing something with the assistance of the 
supernatural. We find that in deed and in truth there 
is magic in adopting the way of life taught by Jesus. 
But this is not mysterious to those who study the 
transforming power of thoughts and words. It is all 
contained in the formula stated by Paul "Be ye trans- 
formed by the renewing of your mind.” Instead of 
doubting, distrusting, and hating man, which is the 
fruit of the intellect, Jesus taught us to love man 
with all our mind, soul, and strength. Instead of 
fighting life and straggling to compete with millions 
of others in the same foolish war, as the intellectual 
man does, Jesus taught man to co-operate. Instead 
of wasting energy in tearing down, Jesus taught 
man to conserve his energy in building up. Jesus does 
not load on man’s back all the burdens of humanity; 
in fact He shows humanity how to love life, how to 
love the Author of life, and how to love life’s ac- 
tivities. In this state of consciousness man automat- 
ically drops the burdens of the intellect and enters 
into the freedom of real living. In the past the in- 
tellect has thought its power supreme. But while it 
is a wonderful faculty, it is in truth the tool of Spirit, 


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and as siidi it needs disctpline if it is to be able to 
perform its perfect work. 

The intellect is always busy, jumping from one 
thing to another, much of the time dwelling on the 
daily routine of the workaday world or on condi- 
tions in the world at large. The first step in scien- 
tific silence is simply to still these outer intellectual 
thoughts so that the consciousness may become sub- 
servient to the Spirit within. 

In I Peter 2:2 we read, “As newborn babes, long 
for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that 
ye may grow thereby unto salvation.” Those who are 
seeking and receiving spiritual understanding are 
born anew every day, and every day the milk of the 
spiritual word continues to feed and nourish the soul. 

Moses was commanded by Jehovah to make all 
things after the pattern shown him on the mount. 
In the heavens of the mind, the spiritual center in 
the crown of the head, the Lord keeps ever before 
man life’s perfect pattern. But man must have the 
spiritual ability to discern this pattern if he is to 
fulfill the requirements of scientific prayer. 

By quieting the mental man, by passing through 
the discipline of intellectual silence, man arrives 
at the very threshold of God’s workshop, the thresh- 
old of Being. As he passes into the inner chamber 
he finds he is entering the holy of holies, where 
noiselessly, silently a mighty work is always going 
on but where there is "neither hammer nor axe nor 
any tool of iron heard.” God works in the stillness. 
As man comes into the presence of God with his 

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prayer in the form of an aJSirmation of Truth, hold- 
ing the prayer steadily in mind and consciously 
unifying his mind with the mind of God, he is aware 
only of the soundlessness of God’s word as it weaves 
itself in and out through the whole soul and body 
consciousness, illumining, redeeming, and restoring 
him according to his faith and trust, according to his 
strength and power to receive. This is quite dijfferent 
from mere intellectual silence that does not know 
the way of spiritual unfoldment. In this spiritual 
silence man’s reali2ation is established in his heart 
and he has the assurance that his prayer is answered 
and that the law of demonstration brings forth the 
fruit. 

The realization is not only written in the soul but 
in the intellect, whose seat of action is in the front 
forehead. The intellect always perceives what has 
taken place within and has power to retain its per- 
ception and to express itself accordingly. Thus the 
intellect serves Spirit, and as it unfolds it becomes 
more and more like Spirit, and it becomes in deed 
and in truth the instrument of God. 

Carlyle must have had an intellectual understand- 
ing as well as a spiritual understanding of divine 
law when he wrote, referring to the kingdom within: 
"Art not thou the living government of God? O 
Heaven, is it not in very deed He then that ever 
speaks through thee— that lives and loves in thee — 
that lives and loves in me?” 

Constructive thought force is a great and mighty 
power, but when it is realized in the silence it be- 

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comes the one and only power in all the eartii. The 
understanding of this made Jesus Christ an adept 
in tile domain of scientific prayer. 

"The God that made the world and all things 
therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth 
not in temples made with hands.” Jesus was born 
down among the animals in the manger at Beth- 
lehem. There is a truth symbolized in this; for not 
only the intellect in man is to be redeemed through 
prayer but also the body; even every animal pro- 
pensity must be redeemed and lifted up through 
Jesus Christ. "In the name of Jesus every knee should 
bow . . . and . . . every tongue should confess 
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the 
Father.” 


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Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is 
any cheerful? let him sing praise. Is any among 
you sick? let him call for the elders of the 
church; and let them pray over him, anointing 
him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the 
prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and 
the Lord shall raise him up . — ^James 5:13. 

T his is a veiy dej&nite and wonderful promise. 
According to the record, it was undoubtedly 
acted upon by the disciples and proved to be 
very effective for hundreds of years. That this mighty 
promise still stands is proved by unnumbered thou- 
sands of Jesus Christ’s followers today. Faith healing 
through prayer has become a practice founded on 
principles that never fail when rightly applied. Those 
who seek the kingdom of God and His righteous- 
ness are having all things added, as promised. When 
we "take with us words" and attempt to go into 
God’s presence, our faith in Him is the power that 
swings wide open the gate that leads into the inner 
kingdom. 

But in order to keep the gate ajar it is a daily 
necessity to withdraw into this deep stillness of the 
soul. Listen first to the innate voice of faith; then 


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through the centers within the subconsciousness you 
can appropriate the life, substance, and intelligence 
of Being. 

Man builds up an enduring state of faith by re- 
peated reali2ations of Truth, The illumination thus 
gained comes forth in man as spiritual understand- 
ing expressed in sound words. 

Faith draws upon substance. Dynamic, creative, 
transforming power is roused to spiritual action 
when man affirms his unity with Almightiness and 
his undaunted faith in its power. 

"Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so 
Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye 
say.” "Concerning the works of my hands, command 
ye me.” 

Man must not only be submissive and obedient to 
the divine law; he must also realize that he is the 
offspring of the ruler of the universe. 

When asking the Father for that which belongs 
to the Son under the divine law, man should assume 
the power and dignity of the Prince of Peace. He 
should not crawl and cringe before an imaginary 
king on a throne but rather feel that he is the image 
of an invisible being who has created him to repre- 
sent His mightiness as well as His loving-kindness. 
We should affirm with conviction those mighty 
words uttered by Jesus Christ: "All authority hath 
been given unto me in heaven and on earth.” 

The prayer of faith is not supplication, a begging 
God to give things to man. Prayer at its highest is 
the entry of the ego through faith into a realm of 


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mind forces that when rightly contacted change the 
character of every cell in brain and body. One who 
has mastered even the primary technique of prayer 
has made contact with the spiritual ethers that con- 
nect ail minds, high and low, and by means of which 
great reforms for the good of man can be projected 
into the world’s thought ether. 

When Jesus prayed, sometimes the whole night 
long, He did not plead with God over and over to 
do what He asked. Through positive faith Jesus was 
laying hold of new ideas, which through His spiritual 
understanding He incorporated into His conscious- 
ness, which included both soul and body. Through 
this mental process He became a living demonstra- 
tion of spiritual man. 

Today Jesus Christ is our helper and teacher. 
Every man when he prays should recognize and take 
advantage of this truth. He can profit much by 
realizing that the same Spirit is in him that was in 
Jesus, who became the Christ. Paul wrote, "But if the 
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead 
dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from 
the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies 
through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” 

Jesus is teaching us today that to pray effectively 
we must believe and know that there is a dispenser 
of the thing asked for and that by reaciiing out in 
prayer we can receive it from the one great source. 
This is truly the prayer of faith. "All things whatso- 
ever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive 
them, and ye shall have them.” 

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Faith, the conviction of a higher providing source, 
is based upon spiritual logic or innate reason and on 
the certainty that an all-wise and all-powerful Cre- 
ator’s plan includes necessary provision for His off- 
spring. Among even the primitive forms of nature 
this providing law is active. The insect stores food 
in the egg for the sustenance of its progeny. When 
man emerges from his animal consciousness and 
feels within him the stirring of Spirit, he finds that 
it is supremely logical and true that Spirit has pro- 
vided for his supply and support. 

When we have achieved spiritual realization of 
our prayer and our innermost soul is satisfied, we 
have the assurance that the thing is accomplished 
in Spirit and must become manifest. 

We may continue in our realization of faith until 
the whole consciousness responds and the instan- 
taneous demonstration takes place. 

Spiritual truth, psychology, and science tell us 
that visible things come from the invisible and are 
dependent upon the unseen for their existence. The 
sense mind cannot conceive of this. 

"But there is a spirit in man, 

And the breath of the Almighty giveth them un- 
derstanding.” 

Before man can fully appreciate and work the spir- 
itual law, he must cultivate a consciousness of re- 
ality. When he does this, he finds he is automatically 
working with God, through Jesus Christ, and that 
he can say with Jesus, ‘'My Father worketh even 

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until now, and I work.” 

Prayer is impotent and unfruitful when the one 
who prays is without the firm belief that his peti- 
tions are answered. When man turns wholeheartedly 
to God, the prayer of faith brings forth abundantly. 
Healing currents of life are freed and flow into and 
through soul and body, healing, redeeming, uplifting 
the whole man. Since the prayer of faith is the activ- 
ity of divine love, let us pray without ceasing, know- 
ing that God hears and grants our petitions. 

Truly the Lord is in the midst of us. When we 
turn toward the omnipresent light of Spirit in faith, 
our eyes are opened to the astonishing fact that this 
seemingly material body and these temporal sur- 
roundings conceal the immanent God. We come to 
understand what Jacob meant when he said, "How 
dreadful is this place! this is none other than the 
house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” 

In prayer attention is the concentration of the 
mind upon a statement of Truth. Attention is focal- 
izing the I AM or inner entity upon a word of 
prayer, until the inner meaning is realized and the 
soul is aware of a definite spiritual uplift. As a lens 
focalizes the sun’s rays at a given point — and 
we know how intense that point of light may be- 
come— -so concentration focalizes the mind on a 
single idea until it becomes manifest and objective. 

In concentration the Holy Spirit works through 
the divine Mother substance to bring forth the fruits 
of Divine Mind. The Holy Spirit is the teacher. 
The teacher and the student use the same principles; 

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but the teacher arouses and inspires the student to 
greater achievement The Holy Spirit today is urging 
us to greater spiritual effort. 

When we direct the mental powers upon a defi- 
nite idea, faith plays its part; it is involved in con- 
centration. As we give attention to the idea through 
one-pointed mind concentration, we break into a 
realm of finer mind activity, called faith or the fire 
of Spirit. Thus faith opens the door into an inner 
consciousness, where we hold the word steadily in 
mind until the spiritual ethers respond to our word. 
Earnest, steady, and continued attention along this 
line is bound to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit 
in abundant measure. A steady, unwavering devo- 
tion of heart and principle to Spirit develops in us 
supermind qualities. 



Prosperity through Prayer 


'T ow THERE cried a certain woman of the 
wives of the sons of the prophets unto 

1 ^ Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband 
is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear 
Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him 
my two children to be bondmen. And Elisha said 
unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me; what 
hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy hand- 
maid hath not anything in the house, save a pot of 
oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of 
all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not 
a few. And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon 
thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those 
vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full. 
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her 
and upon her sons; they brought vessels to her, 
and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the 
vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring 
me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not 
a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came 
and told the man of God. And he said. Go, sell the 
oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons 
of the rest.” 

The story of Elisha and the little pot of oil that 
at his command and with her co-operation filled all 


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the vessels in her house and also those of all her 
neighbors so that she had enough oil to pay all her 
debts, free her children from bondage, and provide 
a living for herself and her sons, reveals the working 
of a mighty law. 

Metaphysically the meaning of the name Elisha is 
"God is a savior; God of deliverance; to whom 
God gives victory; God is rich.” The widow typifies 
a belief in lack, a thought or a line of thought in 
consciousness that has fallen away from that inner 
union with the divine source (husband) and as a 
result is suffering from lack of supply. 

Elisha (meaning also "God is rich”) showed this 
woman how to shut the door and realize that her 
supply came from within. Then he revealed to her 
how to pour out the oil (love) of plenty, and how 
it would prove a permanent supply. Any thought 
is a prayer in which we realize that our desires, God 
directed, are answered the very moment they are 
expressed. 

Christian metaphysicians find that words that ex- 
press thanks, gratitude, and praise, release energies 
of mind and spirit, and their use is usually fol- 
lowed by effects so pronounced that they are quickly 
identified with the originating words, effect being 
merged in cause. 

Let your words of praise and blessing be to Spirit 
and the increase will be even greater than it is when 
they are addressed to man. The resources of Spirit 
are beyond our highest flights of imagination. You 
can praise a weak body into strength; a fearful 



PROSPERITY THROUGH PRAYER 


heart into peace and trust; shattered nerves into 
poise and power; a failing business into prosperity 
and success; want and insufficiency into supply and 
support. 

Do not beg in your prayers, but praise and give 
thanks for the now self-manifesting God of abun- 
dance fulfilling every desire of your heart. 

Make a "date” daily with God and keep it. He 
will never fail you. Some persons are overtimid 
about their religion. They fear ridicule and misun- 
derstanding. A certain banker had established a 
certain time each day for going into the silence to 
pray. His bank, which was located in a country town, 
needed to borrow what it considered a large sum 
of money, and he was in New York City negotiating 
for the loan, but without apparent success. However 
he was strong in the silence and trusted God re- 
gardless of appearances. While he was talking the 
matter of the loan over with tlie New York City 
banker his "silence hour” approached, and our 
country banker was puzzled what to do. He finally 
decided to be honest with God, and in the midst of 
the apparently unfavorable discussion in regard to 
the loan, he quietly announced that he always de- 
voted a few moments to prayer at that hour and 
begged to be excused. 

The face of the city banker at once lighted up. 
He instantly recognized tliat this country friend had 
something that he did not have: he was poised, 
peaceful, trustful in the face of defeat. So the city 
banker hesitatingly replied that he also was in the 

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habit of observing a daily moment of prayer and 
that he would gladly join him. Then and there they 
entered the silence together and had a high realiza- 
tion of God’s power to supply and to bless. At the 
■conclusion of their prayer session the city banker 
; informed the country banker that he was satisfied 
that his securities were good and that the loan would 
be made without delay. 

' Emerson’s inspiration or comment on prayer was 
"Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life 
from the highest point of view. Prayer is the solilo- 
quy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the Spirit 
of God pronouncing His works good. But prayer as 
a means of effecting a private end is theft and 
meanness. It presupposes dualism and not unity in 
nature and consciousness.. As soon as a man is at 
one with God he does not beg. He then sees prayer 
i in all action.’^ 

Father Almighty! We bow before Thine in- 
finite goodness, and invoke in prayer Thine all- 
merciful presence of love. 

We ask, and as we ask we give thanks that 
Thy power and presence are here in love and 
that we are tightly held in Thine all-embracing 
arms, where our every need is supplied and 
where we shall ever rest secure from all the 
buffets of the world. 

Open to US the inner chambers of peace and 
harmony, which divinely belong to us as Thy 
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PROSPERITY THROUGH PRAYER 


We come as IhtU children into the sacred 
and trustful presence of Thy love, knowing full 
'Well that only love can draw and hold us in 
peace and harmony and prosperity. 

Every fear falls away as we enter into Thee 
and Thy glory of love and as we bask m the 
sunshine of love, Thy love, Thy never-failing 


Contacting Spiritual Substance 




M an must build a perfect soul structure with 
faculties capable of always producing abun- 
dantly for both his spiritual and his mate- 
rial welfare. 

In order to accomplish this man must become 
familiar with what the metaphysician terms om- 
nipresent Spirit substance, which is visible only to 
mind and the nature of which is to sustain and 
enrich whatever idea is projected into it. 

This Spirit substance stands back of and gives 
support to man’s every thought and word. It is 
ready to provide food for all living creatures every- 
where. 

Today man is learning consciously to make union 
with this invisible spiritual thought stuff and ap- 
propriate and manifest it. Our supply and support 
is governed by our familiarity with substance and 
by our mental hold upon it. 

Spiritual substance is the source of all material 
wealth and cannot suffer loss or destruction by 
human thought. It is always with us, ready to be 
used and to make potent and fertile both the soul 
and the body consciousness. In this connection Jesus 
said, *'1 have meat to eat that ye know not.” 

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Just as God has been from the beginning so Spirit 
substance has been from the beginning. This sub- 
stance is in fact the Mother side of God, the fem- 
inine element in God's nature. It is the universal 
medium in which we plant ail ideas of supply and 
support. 

Just as the earth is the universal matrix in which 
all vegetation develops so this invisible Spirit sub- 
stance is the universal matrix in which ideas of pros- 
perity germinate and grow and bring forth accord- 
ing to our faith and trust. The "dust of the ground" 
spoken of in Genesis represents the radiant sub- 
stance, the fruit of the initial thought in the ex- 
pression of the substance idea. Under the induence 
of man’s mind radiant Spirit substance continues 
to be manifested in form and shape. For example, 
the sunshine is incorporated in the products of the 
vegetable world; these being appropliated by man 
through mastication, digestion, and assimilation, it 
becomes part of his body. Light and electricity are 
forms of radiant substance. 

Someone has said, 

"The hand that rocks the cradle 
Is the hand that rules the world.” 

In this same way the Mother side of God may 
be said to cradle our good, nurturing it into mani- 
festation and producing the influences that hover 
over and enrich our life. We should always bear in 
mind that if we are to demonstrate we must pay 
strict attention to the conservation of the spiritual 


TEACH US TO PRAY 




thought stuff. I£ we are to go forward spiritually, 
we must not waste our tliought stuff in idle thoughts, 
in thinking thoughts of poverty, discontent, jeal- 
ousy. We should positively weed out of conscious- 
ness all thoughts of poverty and failure, and in 
thinking or speaking of our affairs we should use 
the very highest and best language at our command. 

Whatever the seed word is that is implanted in 
omnipresent Spirit substance, this seed word will 
germinate and grow and bring forth fruit "after its 
kind.’' Just as the farmer therefore selects the very 
best seed corn for planting, so we must choose the 
words that will bring forth the rich harvest of plenty. 

We should bear in mind that God is our silent 
partner and that His wisdom and strength, His 
energy and skill are ours to use. We should realize 
that in every soul there is undoubtedly present (as 
a result of former effort) a great reservoir of radiant 
Spirit substance, which is ready and eager to be 
tapped and freed so that it can supply our every need. 

To gain control of Spirit substance we grasp it 
with our mind; that is, lay hold of the idea back of 
it. Right thinking is necessary in using the mind 
constructively to bring about right results. 

The Father-Mother God has provided abundantly 
for all. In truth, when a soul is born into the world 
it brings with it faculties that, once set to work 
consciously functioning in the omnipresent etheric 
substance, open up channels through which imfail- 
ing supply and support come to this soul. The divine- 

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life idea in the awakened soul is implanted in 
divine substance and brings forth a new being, the 
Son of God. 

The realization of the following prayer will 
awaken man to the consciousness of his divine sup- 
ply and support: 

The idea of the one reality is quickened in 
me, and 1 am alive and athrill with the one 
radiant substance of Spirit. 

Sometimes in demonstrating prosperity God’s mill 
seemingly grinds slow. The reason is, first, that 
man’s consciousness is functioning in such a thick 
envelope of materiality that it is hard to get action. 
And secondly, man has not yet unfolded the working 
power of the word. 

To overcome tliis condition man must enter the 
silence and realize a prayer like this: 

I am free from the clutches of inert matter. 

The working power of the word is quick- 
ened in me, and 1 understand the law governing 
God’s abundance. 

Then it is well to clinch the matter with this real- 
ization: 

Divine substance fiow^mjall its fullness into 
my consciousness atH vm^ughane as prosperity 
mto all my affairs. 

God made us, and there is a vital connection be- 



TEACH US TO PRAY 


tween us and God. Keeping this truth in mind makes 
demonstration easy and enjoyable. 

Be ye builders^ vital, doing, 

Architects of life and fate, 

Ever striving and preparing 
For a higher, nobler state, 

Not in sighing, aging, dying, 

Is the measure of the man, 

But in growing, building, living 
Life fulfills the Master plan. 


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Joyous Prayer 




T here are vibrations in space that our men of 
science have not yet discerned or measured. 
These undiscovered quantities are related to 
i the mind or soul of Being and must be apprehended 
I through the unfolding in man of supermind facul- 
; ties. When the trained Christian metaphysician prays 
I he can, with a disciplined consciousness, make con- 
i tact with these forces in the ether and through them 
! gain a certain unity with the soul of Being. The 
; consciousness thus attained is usually designated as 
^ the Christ consciousness or the mind of the Lord 
; Jesus Christ. When the union is attained an in- 
crease in spiritual power is felt and one has the 
assurance of the activity of spiritual principles within 
of which one has had hitherto no awareness. 

But no man yet knows all of life’s joys, nor will 
he until he has come into the full understanding 
of spiritual communion with God. No man knows 
the fullness of life, nor its joys, until he has prayed 
in meekness and thanksgiving and has received the 
sweet, pure reali2ations of Jesus Christ. True and 
lasting joy arises from within. 'The nature of the 
deep inner life is revealed only to those who spir- 
itually penetrate into its source.; 

Would, you feed the soul on the joys of the scien- 


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tific Christian? If you would you must realize them 
and give thanks in prayer for the more abundant 
life. Then you will find that a great subconscious 
well of living water will begin to bubble up in your 
soul, and you will come to know that hitherto you 
have been living in the shallows of life instead of 
in its mighty depths. You will be blessed with a 
knowledge of the unity of all things, and a great 
peace and harmony will well up within. 

Man must know spiritual harmony, and therein 
is the source of a great secret. Musical geniuses 
say that they first hear their compositions before 
they are given outer form. Poets clothe in words 
and give local habitation and a name to what to the 
practical mind seems airy nothings. 

Pythagoras, the ancient ‘philosopher, wrote that 
God was singing the universe into expression and 
that the suns and planets were the musical notes on 
a grand universal staff. Shakespeare in 'The Mer- 
chant of Venice” had one of his characters say: 

"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! 
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music 
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 

Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven 
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: 

There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st 
But in his motion like an angel sings. 

Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; 

Such harmony is in immortal souls; 

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JOYOUS PRAYER 


But whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.” 

The realization of God as a great wooing, all- 
knowing presence, an everywhere present sustaining 
strength, wherein each soul functions and works out 
its own salvation is to be established in a mighty 
; stronghold that fortifies us against all adverse beliefs. 

It is said that on the ocean of life a joyful soul 
makes a good sailor. This is true. The strong, joyful 
nature will make its way where others fall by the 
! wayside. Joy, spiritual joy, is ours by divine right, 
land buoys us up and urges us onward to accom- 
plishment. 

It is impossible to found a lasting stronghold 
within on anything less than the understanding that 
God is a God of joy. It is through our realization 
of this truth that we drink heartily of the wine of 
life. Often even during serene, yes, sober moments, 
the inner man, the inner woman, is athrill with some 
newborn, joyful anticipation. In prayer every high 
realization that comes to us is to strengthen us for 
greater achievements. 

And when we pray, let us pray with a purpose. 
Purpose gives life a real meaning. Purpose gives 
joy and zest to living. When our eye is on the goal 
we are not so easily perturbed. Purpose awakens 
new trains of thought; purpose directs these trains 
of thought into new fields of achievement. Really 
to succeed we must have some great purpose in 
mind, some goal toward which we are to work. But 

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above all, we must always purpose in our heart to 
achieve spirituality. 

As we study the one great Presence and Power, 
we come to know that there is no chapter in our 
life that is such a failure but has back of it a grand 
purpose, which purpose must eventually somewhere, 
somehow work itself out in a most ennobling man- 
ner, well pleasing in the sight of God. 



How to Handle the Psychic Forces of 
Consciousness 


T he first step of a Truth student in handling 
the psychic forces of consciousness is the same 
as that in handling any other, and that is to 
realize that God is the one and only power; to 
declare with Byron: "There is no god but God! — 
to prayer- — lo! God is great!" 

The name psyche, which figures in Greek mythol- 
ogy, means breath, life. Psyche is represented as 
one of the three daughters of a king. These three 
"daughters” are spirit, soul, and body. Psyche is the 
soul in its many earthly experiences, in its failures 
and its successes. 

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, 
and His law is for the use of all alike, Man in- 
terprets His law and operates in accord with it to 
the best of his ability in his endeavor to grow and 
prove his mastery over the many events that take 
place in his life. 

If man would become expert in handling scien- 
tifically the psychical forces, he should first get a 
thorough understanding of just what these forces 
are, and above all he should know that like other 
forces they are subservient to God’s law. The psychic 
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or soul realm includes the sum total o£ conscious- 
ness, all that the individual has experienced. 

In analy2ing the soul realm we have first the 
animal soul. The animal soul comprises all sensa- 
tions and all thoughts that we entertain with refer- 
ence to animal life. Through man’s thought the 
animal soul forms the animal man. 

The second element in the soul realm, the human 
soul, is one step higher than the animal, and com- 
prises all the thoughts and emotions we entertain 
on the human plane of consciousness: thoughts of 
family, of friends, of business associates, or per- 
sonal possessions. 

The third and highest element of soul is the spir- 
itual. This phase of the soul is the depository of all 
thoughts and aspirations we have ever had about 
God and things spiritual. Here also we find a con- 
sciousness that relates us to God and forms the con- 
necting link between the human and the divine. 
When through prayers, meditations, and good works 
man has built spiritual qualities into his soul to the 
point of dominance over the animal and human 
natures, he is ready for the regeneration with Jesus 
Christ. 

It is true that through the animal and human 
departments of the soul we are in sympathy with 
all nature, which includes the earth, the sun, the 
moon, and the stars, and as these are ail ensouled, 
their reactions affect us when there is no higher 
power in evidence. But there is a higher power in us 
every one: Spirit. In Genesis it is stated that spir- 



HOW TO HANDLE THE PSYCHIC EORCES 


itual man, the image- and-likeness man, was given 
dominion over all creation. As Shakespeare aptly 
says, 

"The fault is not in our stars, 

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” 

In our ongoing we endeavor always to bear in 
mind that God is the one and only power. We must 
know and realize that the great intelligence of God 
works in every conceivable way to lead us into the 
light, thus aiding us in avoiding error conditions. 
The indwelling Christ will “neither slumber nor 
sleep”; with the Holy Spirit it is teaching us the 
great truth that we are “Gods in the making” and 
that as such we have dominion over every thought 
and condition. 

When Jesus was born in the manger in Bethle- 
hem the star appeared in the east and pointed the 
way for the Wise Men to the spot where the young 
child lay. A mighty soul had been incarnated and 
had come to do a mighty work on the earth. So 
great was the occasion that the whole heavenly 
universe sang with joy. This to the individual means 
that a speck of light shone in the east, the within, 
revealing to the illumined soul what was taking 
place. The star is a symbol of potentiality; it repre- 
sents expanding possibilities. The saving I am had 
at last made its spiritual power manifest in the 
earth. But was the star seen by those who were 
not spiritually illumined.^ No. They had eyes but saw 
not. Only the illumined, the awakened, could per- 


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ceive the star o£ Bethlehem. So the spiritual I am 
is often doing a great work in the soul of a man, and 
the man knows it not. This Scripture also reveals 
the w'^ay in which Spirit often uses the so-called 
psychic to do its bidding, to reveal its power. 

Today men are breaking into the psychic realm 
as never before and, not being consciously unified 
with Spirit, are becoming entangled in their own 
mentality, in addition to the psychic vibrations of 
the whole race. Often this leads to very unpleasant 
experiences. 

In fact the souls of all people are being quick- 
ened, and in the absence of an understanding of 
Truth erratic states of mind are formed that cause 
fantastic notions about many things. Persons in this 
condition often become supersensitive and imagine 
that they are being criticized, that others are talking 
about them, and a thousand and one other things. 
Very often this condition is the result of trying to 
communicate with the dead through mediums and 
spiritualistic seances. 

There is a realm in which the souls that have left 
the body are functioning feebly. Spiritualists call it 
"spirit land” or "the home of the soul.” The early 
Christians taught that those who had passed away 
were asleep. This is not true of all persons, but 
those who have lived a long, strenuous life and 
are weary want rest and fall asleep. Paul said, "Be- 
cause you have not discerned the Lord’s body you 
have fallen asleep.” Others who have lost their 
body early in life are ready for immediate action 


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in reincarnation and do not find sleep necessaiy. 

Eventually all souls reincarnate on the earth as 
babes and in due time take up their problems where 
they left oS at death. But before they do rein- 
carnate they sometimes try to communicate with 
their loved ones here on earth. This is never satis- 
factory and leads nowhere. Persons who sit in 
seances are taking a great risk. Instead of really 
getting in touch with their loved ones they are apt 
to make contact with psychic forces of a low order 
that tend to weaken their faith in God. 

Paul said, "Our wrestling is not "against flesh 
and blood, but against the principalities, against 
the powers, against the world rulers of this dark- 
ness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the 
heavenly places” 

Wlien a person is established in the Christ power 
and dominion, he finds that Spirit often uses the 
mental realm to reveal to him some message that is 
of vital importance to him. Such messages are im- 
parted through dreams and visions. When the soul 
is still, as in sleep, the Spirit of truth throws the 
message on the screen of the mind in the form of 
thought pictures. One only has to read the symbols 
in order to receive the message. If the message is 
constructive, it is well to praise God and give thanks. 
If it is of a destructive nature, take tlie message into 
the silence and place it before God. Hold the 
thought for light until you have the realization that 
the illumination of Spirit permeates and penetrates 
the whole condition. Spiritual light transforms, re- 


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constructs, and makes beautiful. Joseph, the son of 
Jacob, was an expert at interpreting dreams and 
visions. However many of the patriarchs of old were 
well versed in the art of deciphering the visions 
of the night. 

Again the psychic realm is the realm in which 
primitive man (Adam and Eve) first functioned. 
Instead of listening to the Lord they listened to the 
serpent (the sense man) and learned to indulge 
in sensation until it depleted divine substance. Disin- 
tegration of the body followed. This is physical 
death. For this cause the human family lost their 
original estate in the ethereal or heavenly kingdom 
and descended into earthly fleshly consciousness. 

We are now, through Christ, listening to Jehovah 
God, through whom we are learning the law of 
life, and we are being restored to the understanding 
that all the factors that enter into life are here all 
the time and are ours to use. Through Jesus Christ 
man has dominion. Through Jesus Christ it is pos- 
sible for us to make the perfect union between 
soul and body, and enter into the consciousness of 
Almightiness, thus being restored to the paradise 
of God from which we originally came forth. 

We should not think of the psychic realm as evil 
or be afraid of it. Through Jesus Christ we possess 
mastery and dominion over all realms. Through our 
own Christ dominion we, develop spiritual powers to 
handle the psychic realm to great advantage. And 
that this is a realm in which tremendous forces are 
present is being discovered by the investigations of 



HOW TO HANDLE THE PSYCHIC FORCES 


physical science. Jesus often referred to the "king- 
dom of the heavens” or the kingdom of God, 
which He said was very nigh unto us and even 
within us. This kingdom is above the psychic, await- 
ing our appropriation of it through prayer. Jesus 
told His followers that after His ascension they 
were to go into the upper room in Jerusalem (a 
high, peaceful state of consciousness), where the 
Holy Spirit would come upon them with power. 
Science says the ether possesses dynamic power be- 
yond anything we can imagine. Sir Oliver Lodge 
is quoted as saying that there is energy enough 
in one cubic inch of ether to run a forty-horsepower 
engine for forty millions of years. This is beyond 
all human conception; but many of the stories that 
science is telling us about the power of the ether 
are fully equal to this, and if they were in the Bible 
skeptics would point to them as examples of the 
credulity of the Christians. 

Jesus says that all power should be given to us, 
which carries with it the idea of unlimited capacity. 

For mastery and dominion over all conditions 
affirm: 

I AM THAT I AM. 

Through Jesus Christ I am the master of 
every realm o f consciousness in my being. 

Through Jesus Christ I enter into a full and 
complete understanding of how to handle all 
states of consciousness to the glory of God. 

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I am illumined ivith the light of Spirit , and I 
bring ” every thought into captivity to the obedi- 
ence of Christ.” 

I commit all my works unto fehovah, and my 
purposes are established. 

Every plane of consciousness in me is trans- 
formed by the renewing of the mind. 


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spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man 
Master 


% CCORDING to Genesis, Elohim God planned that 
/\ man, created in His image and likeness, 
/ \ should have all the qualities of his Maker, 
At first glance this man created in the beginning 
seems the equal of God man or God son. 

Further insight into the creative process however 
reveals that man has a work to do in developing 
his innate abilities, the “image” and “likeness.” 
Following the paragraph “Let us make man in our 
image, after our likeness” we read: “And let them 
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over 
the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and 
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing 
that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man 
in his own image, in tire image of God created he 
him, male and female created he them. And God 
blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, 
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue 
it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and 
over the birds ... and over every living thing,” 

In modern language we would say that God 
imaged a man like Himself who would fulfill the 
law of his being when he had gained the mastery 


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TEACH US TO PRAY 


over certain forces in his field of activity. These 
forces are symbolically described as "birds,” "fish,” 
"cattle,” and "creeping things,” through which man 
replenishes the earth. 

The whole Bible tells of man’s experience in 
striving for the mastery. In addition to the Bible, 
all the history of man is a record of how the human 
family has struggled to fulfill the creative ideas 
implanted in them from the beginning. The "birds 
of the heavens” are their high ideals, the "cattle” 
or "beasts of the field” are of a low order, the "fish 
of the sea” are their generated or accumulated im- 
pulses, and the "creeping things” represent the 
micro-organisms of modern science that are claimed 
to be the cause of most diseases. It has been as- 
sumed that man’s dominion was to be exercised 
through aggression, through physical mastery. This 
idea has instigated man to wage war and rule by 
tyranny, all of which his higher thoughts tell him 
is in direct violation of divine law. 

Our higher reason, backed by experience, forces 
us to look to another source than the physical for 
a solution of the problem of "dominion.” 

As the great example of one who became a mas- 
ter through spiritual unfoidment we point to Jesus, 
who became the Master of all masters. Jesus was 
God manifest in the flesh. 

Today Jesus Christ is the realized, ideal Master. 
He is the full, perfect expression of the superman. 
In Him "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead 
bodily.” To Jesus Christ God was a being of infinite 



SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT MAKES MAN MASTER 


goodness that He was to realize and express. So 
today through Jesus Christ God is a being of in- 
finite goodness that we are to realize and express. 
Today the name Jesus Christ is called “Wonderful, 
Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince 
of Peace.” Jesus Christ is the Master, majestic yet 
simple. His relation to man makes His tenderness 
toward humanity exquisitely touching. When we 
think of the mighty revolution that has taken place 
in the consciousness of the race through His teach- 
ing, we realize at least to a degree what He has done 
for the race. 

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; 

And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a 
city.” 

Jesus Christ ruled His own spirit. Through Jesus 
Christ we are learning to rule our own spirit, to 
gain tlie mastery over every word and thought, yes, 
over every impulse of the whole being, not only 
on the soul plane but on the physical plane as well. 
His presence right in our midst is teaching us con- 
trol. His presence right in our midst inspires us 
with new ideas, incites us to go forward to achieve. 

In the world of affairs a master is one who can 
enforce obedience, but the Master of masters did 
not “enforce.” Through His spiritual ability He 
inspired obedience. 

Jesus Christ attained mastery over sin, sickness, 
death- He attained a permanent state of conscious- 
ness where mortal weakness cannot enter. Emerson 


TEACH US TO PRAY 


says that the measure of a master is his ability to 
bring ail men around to his opinion within twenty 
years. Today, as never before, two thousand years 
after Jesus closed His ministry here on earth, He is 
bringing men around to His opinion or rather to 
His truths as never before. 

But Jesus Christ is also a servant. We follow Him 
because He serves best; because He bears with us 
as we strive to overcome our sins — He bears our 
sins with gentleness and patience. As we work m 
prayer with Him, He leads us into a high state of 
spiritual consciousness where we realize the allness 
of God and His laws. 

When Jesus was asked by a crafty lawyer to name 
the greatest commandment He quickly answered that 
all the Law and the Prophets could be summarized 
thus; "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
mind. This is the great and first commandment. And 
a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments 
the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.” This is 
a test, a challenge, to all those who would unfold 
spiritually. This attitude of mind brings us in tune 
with Divine Mind so that we are prepared to re- 
ceive its blessings. When our thoughts are estab- 
lished in love, a divine synchronization takes place. 
Divine Mind has a fixed rate of vibration to which, 
through Jesus Christ, the mind of man is synchro- 
nized, just as a radio receiving set is synchronized 
to the frequency of a broadcasting station. In order 



SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT MAKES MAN MASTER 


to tap Divine Mind we must bring the rate of vi- 
bration of our mind up to the standard, for it is 
only when our mind is vibrating at its most acceler- 
ated rate that God can make Himself known to us. 
The efficiency of the radio receiving set depends 
upon the number of its tubes and their adjustment 
to the electromagnetic field in which its kilocycles 
function. By this same law the perfect man must 
have his twelve great powers developed, operating in 
perfect tune with Divine Mind, in order to bring 
forth the image and likeness man. 

In the silence when his mind is fixed steadily on 
God and is functioning in the consciousness of in- 
finite love, the activities of man’s brain cells syn- 
chronize with those of the very brain cells of the 
Master. Even the intelligent principle of the love 
center responds, and thus man becomes a spiritual 
radio with power to receive radiations from Divine 
Mind as well as power to broadcast them throughout 
his whole organism. He even is able to broadcast 
them throughout his environment near and far, an 
ability that is limited only by the spiritual power he 
has developed. 

Humanity must bear in mind that it is traveling 
the road of spiritual unfoldment and hold its eye 
on the goal. Right here in our midst, in the mind 
realm as well as in the manifest world, will be de- 
veloped a mighty neutralizing power that will render 
ail destructive powers null and void, that will dis- 
solve disease, and resurrect the consciousness of 
peace, health, and abundance. 


Fulfillment 




a % nd god created man in his own image, m 
/\ the image of God created he him; male 
j\ and female created he them. And God 
blessed them,” "And on the seventh day God fin- 
ished his work which he had made; and he rested 
on the seventh day from all his work which he had 
made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hal- 
lowed it; because that in it he rested from all his 
work which God had created and made.” 


Science tells us that all living forms are made up 
of aggregations of cells, that all cells are made up 
of molecules and atoms, and that atoms have within 
them electrons and protons, the source of light and 
energy, the source of everything the atom and its 
aggregations manifest. So we are safe in asserting 
that the atom at its core is Spirit and that Bible 
characters had this primal source of light in mind 
when they spoke of the light of the Spirit. Jesus 
proclaimed: "I am the light of the world.” "Ye 
are the light of the world.” When He spoke thus 
He was speaking of this inner light which gives life 
and intelligence to all creation. When the apostle 
James wrote, "Every good gift and every perfect 
gift is from above, coming down from the Father 
of lights,” he was corroborating the Gospel of 



FULFILLMENT 


John, which in the very first chapter says: "In him 
i was life; and the life was the light of men. And the 
, light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness ap- 
i prehended it not. There came a man, sent from 
God, whose name was John. The same came for 
witness, that he might bear witness of the light, 
that all might believe through him. He was not the 
s light, but came that he might bear witness of the 
light. There was the true light, even the light which 
lighteth every man, coming into the world.” 

These light and energy units radiate light and 
; generate light, of which an incandescent electrical 
bulb is an example. From this we get a clue as to the 
status of man and his body as a light center with 
an aggregation of billions and trillions of cells, 
every one of them flashing light of varying color 
and brilliancy and forming about the body an aura 
of splendor. As stated in John, this aura shines in 
the darkness and the darkness apprehends it not. 
The mind must be illumined by Christ before it can 
behold the light radiating from every soul. “When 
that light is developed it is visible to those who 
know how to still the outer mind and enter into 
the silence. In the 1st chapter of Revelation John 
: says: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I 
! heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet. . . . 

. I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of 
the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed 
with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at 
the breasts with a golden girdle. And his head and his 
hair were white as white wool, w/pJu as snow; and 


TEACH US TO PRAY 


his eyes were as a flame of Are; and his feet like 
unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in 
a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. 
... and his countenance was as the sun shine th 
in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his 
feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon 
me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, and 
the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am 
alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and 
of Hades.” 

Here John, resting at the light center of his soul, 
saw the resurrected Christ. 

The development of this spiritual light is the 
destiny of us all; and we shall not be satisfied until 
we "awake in his likeness.” All are radiant in a 
certain degree with this spiritual light, but especially 
those who have an understanding of Spirit and its 
universality. We feel the light and sometimes men- 
tally see it flashing into expression when we have 
a spiritual uplift gained from a new idea of Truth. 
Others feel its influence and are moved to higher 
things by it; or if it is radiating gloomily, they are 
moved to depression and discouragement. 

The scientific understanding of the great Bible 
truths thrills the soul with the desire for spiritual 
attainment, with a longing for spiritual fulfillment. 
Today many enlightened persons are proudly ac- 
knowledging Jesus Christ as the grand and perfect 
fulfillment, as perceived by John in Revelation, and 
they are claiming His promises: "If ye abide in me, 
and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, 



FULFILLMENT 


aad it shall be done unto you.” ”I£ a man keep my 
word, he shall never see death,” 

We revel in just concentrating upon the name 
Jesus Christ and in speculating about the history of 
His soul’s unfoldment. We take delight in specu- 
lating about the true reason why He is so far in 
advance of our time. Surely Jesus Christ was the 
product of a cycle of human development that was 
before our present cycle of development. When here 
on earth, through the mastery of spiritual laws of 
which we today have only an inkling, He performed 
many seeming miracles. Think of the condition in 
those times of a body that had been dead for four 
days. Imagine Jesus thanking God that His petition 
had been heard and then speaking the word of life 
to one who had lain in the grave for this length of 
time. Then imagine this person instantly being 
charged with new life; imagine great streams of 
life flowing through his every cell and fiber until 
he came walking out of the tomb, restored to per- 
fect health. Imagine Jesus in the consciousness of 
perfect unity with God speaking the healing word 
to many "sick unto death” and each one instantly 
throwing off the disease and coming forward sound 
and well. 

Jesus taught us how to pray. He taught us that 
prayer is not only the spiritual approach to the 
Father but that through prayer and realization we 
attain the interpenetrating consciousness of God’s 
perfect life and love and power. Jesus revealed to 
us that we are the sheep, of His pasture; that is^ 

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that we are children of the same Father as He. He 
is our Eider Brother, our helper. We are His peo- 
ple, and He is interested in our progress. 

Jesus Christ has provided and provides today the 
greatest impetus to the ongoing of our race. When 
the soul of the race (symbolized by Eve) became 
involved in the pleasures of sensation (symbolized 
by the serpent) and sought other guidance than 
that of Jehovah God, gradual degeneration of the 
whole human family began until men were in a 
bad way. Something had to be done. Someway, 
somehow we had to be lifted out of the mur% 
darkness of sense thought. 

To lift the race out of sense thought Jesus was 
compelled by the necessity of soul sympathy to be- 
come an intimate associate of the people He sought 
to help. Hence He incarnated into the race and was 
“tempted in all points as we are, but without sin.” 

Through His experience on the cross, where His 
precious blood was spilled, through His suffering 
there Jesus lowered His consciousness to the con- 
sciousness of the race, thereby administering to the 
whole race a blood transfusion, imparting to both 
the soul and the body of men the properties of 
Being that will restore man to his divine estate. 

With their blood transfusions the medical men 
of today are copying this grand transfusion of life. 
We are on the way to fulfillment and the Jesus 
Christ way! 

Jesus Christ broadcast the electrons of His blood 
into the race thought atmosphere, and they may be 



FULFILLMENT 


apprehended by all who believe in Him. These elec- 
trons become centers o£ energy and life in those 
who appropriate them, and Aus men gradually 
transform and regenerate their blood and their 
body. This is the real spiritual meaning o£ being 
saved by Jesus Christ. 

The blood is the li£e. Jesus really came to bring 
to the whole human family a larger consciousness 
of life. He said, '1 came that ye may have life, and 
may have it more abundantly.” 

Life is a universal energy that moves even the 
corpuscles of the blood. Therefore life is more power- 
ful than the blood. Consequently we believe that 
it was through the "shedding,” the getting rid, of 
the idea of flesh and blood that Jesus accomplished 
His great works. He tapped the great reservoir of 
divine life and raised His consciousness of life to 
that of the Father. Through Him we all have ac- 
cess to this perpetual life stream. We must really 
eat of His substance, as He taught us; that is, we 
must appropriate it as spiritually ours. We must 
drink of His blood: let His life stream flow through 
our mind and body, healing, cleansing, and purify- 
ing us in every way. This is the grand at-one-ment 
(atonement) of man’s life with the life of God 
through Jesus Christ. This is the way to perfect 
fulflllment 




Unfoldment 


God’s pure life and substance are constantly 
renewing and rebuilding His holy temple, 
my body. 

New and rich ideas arise in my mind, and I 
demonstrate prosperity. 

iiST 'T' NITY claims that the Bible teaches evolu- 

I I tion; just where is the evolution of Jesus 

V_y Christ taught ?” 

The evolution of Jesus was a combination of mind 
and body unfoldment. 

The body of Jesus developed from germs planted 
in Mary, His mother. Science says that all stages of 
unfoldment from the most primitive animal to man 
are illustrated in the development of the human 
organism. So we must conclude that the body of 
Jesus was an unfoldment from sense to Spirit. 

However Unity teaches the evolution of both 
soul and body; an evolution summarized in the 1st 
chapter of John under the head of the unfoldment 
of the Word. Bible authorities say that "Word” is 
a poor translation of the Greek word Logos. Logos 


UNFOIDMENT 


conveys the idea of implanted God — ^Mind in man — 
from ivhich the perfect man logically evolves. 

God is Spirit. In creation Spirit takes the form 
of mind, implanting itself in substance and be- 
coming manifest as perfect man. Here is condensed 
in a few words what would take volumes to de- 
scribe. Here are epitomized all books on physiology 
and evolution, mental science and psychology, re- 
ligion and spiritual philosophy. 

In the rocks beneath our feet are preserved the 
bones of mammoth creatures that have been suc- 
ceeded by finer types of animal life. Here is evi- 
dence of evolution from lower to higher types of 
life. Anthropology teaches that the earth has been 
inhabited by man for at least half a million years. 
Many hold that the present body of man has within 
it natural forces that would transform it if they 
were released. Those who read between the lines 
have discovered that the Bible veils evolution in 
rites, ceremonies, and acts of personalities. 

As all words in every language have their root 
in the thoughts and acts of man, so all the rites and 
ceremonies of religion represent man’s relation to 
his source, God, and the development of his soul. 

The two baptisms, that of John and Jesus, repre- 
sent the two common steps in the growth of the soul, 
denial and affirmation, tibe dropping of the old and 
the laying hold of the new. This is evolution. 

In its totality John the Baptist represents the per- 
fected natural man who recognizes his finality and 
his willingness to surrender his personality so that 


TEACH US TO PRAY 


the superman Christ may supplant him, thus sym- 
bolizing the evolution of the soul from the personal 
to the spiritual. 

It is essential that a clear understanding be had of 
the principles involved in the transition from the 
natural to the spiritual, otherwise the way will be 
difficult. 

Jesus praised John as the most perfect of those 
born of women — that is, of the Adam or natural 
man — but He explained that John even in his per- 
fection was not to be compared with the spiritual 
man. He also commented on the futile efforts of 
those on the natural plane who attempt by will 
force (violence) to attain the spiritual (“kingdom 
of heaven”). 

In the process of developing out of the natural 
into the spiritual not only the mind but the body 
also is affected. The energy locked up in the cells 
of the physical are released and the body of flesh 
is transformed into a radiant body of light. This is 
a day-by-day transformation of the cells until the 
whole body is "electrified” and passes over into the 
fourth dimension or kingdom of the heavens. Jesus 
accomplished this transformation of His body and it 
became an electrical dynamo broadcasting life germs 
throughout our race consciousness. We are to fol- 
low Him in this transformation. 

These life germs of Jesus’ body form the nucleus 
of a new race organism for alT people. All persons 
everywhere may partake of (eat) the radiant body 
(bread) of Jesus by exercising faith in Him as the 

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great source of pure Spirit substance, sown as soui 
seed for the saving of humanity from sense con- 
sciousness. 

Not only may one eat of this superbody sub- 
stance but one may also drink through faith of His 
transcendent life. Such eating of His body and 
drinking of His life or blood is the ‘‘Holy Com- 
munion” of which sincere Christians partake daily. 

The understanding that this very intimate rela- 
tion exists between Jesus and His true followers 
is transforming the body of thousands of Christians 
who formerly labored under the thought that the 
new body in Christ was to be attained after death. 

"I am the resurrection, and the life.” "If a man 
keep my word, he shall never see death.” 

When man understands that he is always right 
in the presence of a supermind force that is per- 
petually pushing him into higher states of con- 
sciousness and finer physical radiations, he cannot 
help-co-operating with it in the divine urge toward 
higher things. 

No man can retard this universal upward sWeep 
of the whole creation, but in the exercise of his 
inherent free will man can insulate his soul and 
body, separate himself from it, and thus become 
lost in the delusions of sense. To join the holy 
Spirit in its efforts to gain the attention and co- 
operation of all men we. make it a practice to join 
with people of like mind in every walk of life in 
affirming words that bind us to the mighty moving 
Spirit of Jesus Christ. 

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Thought Images 


I see myself as God sees me, perfect in mind 
and body. 

What I image in mind is molded in omni- 
present substance, and I behold plenty for 
everybody. 

E very time we go to a movie we are wit- 
nessing a likeness of what is constantly tak- 
ing place in our mind. A likeness is an imi- 
tation or repetition of a tiling. The projection into 
visible action of a series of small images by a motion- 
picture machine is the copy of a process that we all 
use, the picture-making ability of our mind. How- 
ever the picture-making ability of our mind is a far 
more substantial thing than the weak imitations of 
the movie camera. We clothe our mental pictures 
with flesh and blood, while the movie is merely 
shimmering shadows. 

It is true that persons who are shallow in their 
: grasp of the deep things of life image weakly, and 
the projections of their mind are transitory. But 
’ those who have meditated seriously upon the source 


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o£ existence and stirred up the inner substance and 
life make very substantial pictures in the universal 
ether or "kingdom of the heavens/’ An image pro- 
jected from the head alone, which has not made 
union with soul substance, is a mere flickering will- 
o’-the-wisp that shimmers for a short moment in the 
mental marshes and then fades away. 

There is a vast difference between the thought 
images of an intellectual thinker and those of one 
who has got access to the spiritual substance and life 
within. One may make brilliant pictures in the etiier, 
but they are without the substance and life that is so 
essential to the structure of things eternal. Jesus 
illustrated this in His comparison of the man who 
builds upon rock with the man who builds upon 
sand. The house built upon sand soon falls, but 
the one built on rock (substance) endures when the 
winds and floods descend upon it. 

Spiritual insight or discernment shows us that 
Divine Mind, which created in the beginning, must 
still be carrying forward the universe and the man 
that it originally conceived. It also shows us that 
by projecting the perfect picture of ourselves that 
God projected we shall behold its perfect manifesta- 
tion. 

Paul says that we shall attain the glory of the 
Lord by degrees: "from glory to glory.” Jesus said, 
"In your patience ye shall win your souls.” So many 
of us have visions of the perfect man, as had John 
on Patmos, and we are so eager to be like him that 
we get impatient and eagerly grasp at the many 


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"promising” short cuts into the kingdom. 

But we should be constantly reminded that there 
are no shorter cuts than those taught by Jesus Christ, 
He said that the kingdom of heaven suffered vio- 
lence under John the Baptist and the other prophets 
up to the time of John and that the violent took it 
by force. Then He called attention to John the 
Baptist as the reincarnation of Elijah. Of all the 
old prophets Elijah was the most violent and de- 
structive. He at one time called down the fire of 
Jehovah and destroyed four hundred of the prophets 
of Baal. This violent and destructive rise of the 
power of the word finally reacted upon the ceils 
of Elijah’s body and burned them up, and he was 
taken up into the heavens in a chariot of fire. 

It is popularly taught that Elijah is a saint in 
heaven, but this cannot be true because, as Jesus 
■plainly taught in Matthew 11:14, he appeared 
: again in the earth as John the Baptist. Neither did 
ijohn get into heaven. He expressed the Elijah 
spirit by condemning Herod and then having his 
head cut off by way of reaction to his destructive 
thought. All this instructs us in the power of our 
mind to bring peace, harmony, and health into our 
life by right thinking. All that Jesus taught about 
man and his mighty mental capacity is being con- 
firmed by modern psychology and by the discoveries 
of science in the realms invisible. For us it is not 
only a privilege but an absolute necessity to bring 
forth that perfection of character and form which 
was originally imaged in our soul by God-Mind. 


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Hhe Spoken Word 

spirit life quickens mind and body, and I am 
whole. 

Spirit substance fills my mind and floods my 
aflairs. 


UNDERSTAND that the worlds were 
\V / framed by the word of God spoken in 
Yt faith. This in substance is the comment 
of the author of Hebrews, undoubtedly Paul. If God 
created by the power of His word it is fair to assume 
that He gave like power to man, who has in minia- 
ture all the abilities of His Father. Jesus confirmed 
this power of man’s word when He said that we 
should be held accountable for our lightest word 
and that our words would both justify and condemn 
us. 

Our words are so interwoven with our thoughts 
and acts that we do not discern the relation between 
cause and effect, in fact we do not as a rule see any 
connection between them. We are so concerned with 
effects that we have no consciousness of causes. 
So in explaining the law by which man builds his 

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character, soul, body, and environment, we must 
repeatedly call attention to the source of these things, 
Spirit and its outlet in man, the word. Thought and 
word are so intimately allied that we usually count 
them as one. "Out of the abundance of the heart 
his mouth speaketh.” Get a deep conviction of the 
truth of your cause; then speak it forth in strong 
words, and it will surely come to pass. 

The process through which the idea — conceived 
in mind, formed in thought, and made manifest in 
■ body and affairs — ^passes in its various stages is not 
always clear, and we are not usually concerned about 
the manner in which the end is accomplished. The 
fulfillment of our objective is the principle thing. 

However it is within the province of man to un- 
derstand and witness the whole process of creative 
thought in his own organism. It requires soul cul- 
ture of an advanced order to do this, and but few 
persons are willing to undertake the necessary study 
and discipline. It is not taught in any of the meta- 
physical schools, because the instructions cannot be 
put in words. No words have yet been invented to 
express the attitudes of mind and body required to 
raise the ceil life in man’s body to the required 
potency. The spiritual 'ether in which we fioat has 
a rate of vibration millions of times greater than 
matter. This is the kingdom of Spirit life, which 
Jesus brought to our attention and of which we 
must lay hold if we would attain eternal or con- 
tinuous life. The individuality or I AM must give 
concentrated attention to this inner life energy and 

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introduce it into mind and body continually until the 
whole nervous system is aflame with Spirit life. We 
may not be conscious of it, but we are all seeking 
this inner life flame, because its ener^ is the only 
source upon which we can draw to raise our atomic 
vibration to the point where it will overcome the 
slow disintegrating flow of human nature. 

There are souls in the heavens who have accom- 
plished this and so attuned their bodies to the spir- 
itual life that they are no longer subject to death. 
Jesus of Nazareth is the illumined soul appointed 
to save our race from the disintegrating effects of 
broken law, and through Him we are dynamically 
infused with life. 

Every time we listen to a radio program we have 
in the diffusion of intelligence an illustration of 
what Jesus accomplished in the diffusion of life. 
In the 1st chapter of John we read, "In him was life; 
/and the life was the light of men,” 

Here light (intelligence) and life are treated as 
one. Like all the attributes of Spirit, intelligence 
or the knowing quality is united with the active 
quality, life. There is a spiritual ether corresponding 
to the radio ether, into which Jesus merged His soul 
and body at His disappearance in the heavens (hoi 
oufanoi). Here awaitiiig our appropriation is a radi- 
ant intelligence and life. When we turn our atten- 
tion within and give ourselves up wholly to Spirit, 
we are quickened with a life and intelligence of 
sup'erexcellence. 

When the blood stream becomes depleted our 
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physicians hasten to make a blood transfusion, over- 
looking tlie fact that Jesus Christ made it possible 
for all of us to receive from Him a life transfusion 
that not only revives us in temporal ills but, above 
all, begins in our body a purifying and energizing 
process that will finally save us from death. 

When we strive to be like Jesus in thought and 
word we are quickened by Him and are lifted up. 
;This results in healing; but far more important, we 
:are inoculated with the germs of soul and body 
cleansing. 


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In the presence and power of the Christ in me 
I decree the manifestation of perfect health. 

In the presence and power of the living 
Christ substance I claim the riches of God. 

G od made man by the power of His word: 
‘'God said, Let us make man in our image, 
after our likeness.” By virtue of his spiritual 
origin and the power vested in him man forms by his 
word the world in which he lives. Jehovah said to 
Job, "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall 
be established unto thee.” 

Every word man utters energizes the ether with 
a creative impulse that in due season brings forth 
its image and likeness. 

The formative power of man s thought and word 
is governed by his faith in himself and the vehe- 
mence with which he thinks and speaks. 

Jesus expected great things of His followers be- 
cause He knew what is in man. He knew that man 
has laid hold of the power of God, as stated in 
Genesis 3:22, "Behold, the man is become as one 

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o£ US.” Jesus recognized this when He said, "Is it 
not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” 

We have not brought forth in the majesty of 
the sons of God because of our self-depreciation 
and our ignorance of the creative law implanted 
in us. Job had the inferiority complex of person- 
ality. He whined: 

"Behold, I am of small account; what shall I an- 
swer thee ? . . . 

Then Jehovah answered Job out of tlie whirlwind, 
and said, 

Gird up thy loins now like a man: 

■ I will demand of thee, and declare tliou unto me . . . 

Deck thyself now with excellence and dignity; 

J And array thyself with honor and majesty.” 

Isaiali said, "Woe unto them that decree un- 
righteous decrees.” Our woes can be traced right 
back to some unrighteous decree. We have decreed 
a thousand things that we did not want to come to 
pass, but that have come to pass, and we are suffer- 
ing the woeful consequences. 

Our body is weak or strong, according to what 
we have decreed for it. Every organ is function- 
ing as we have decreed. If we have said, "My 
stomach is weak,” the obedient life and substance 
has formed this kind of stomach for us. If we have 
declared strength and vigor for our stomach, this 
organ will at once begin to carry out our decree. 
"Say the word, and my servant shall be healed.” 


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So every organ and member of the body responds to 
our decree. 

Man is the anointed son of God called Christ. 
When we know the truth about ourselves we are 
freed from the bondage of the foolish decrees of 
personality. Do not exalt personality in your de- 
crees for yourself. Exalt Christ by making your de- 
crees in His name. "Christ in you, the hope of glory.” 

The vital energy of eternal life exists in every 
ceil of our body. Science proclaims tiiat its experi- 
ments with animal tissues prove that man’s body 
would live forever if it were not for his brain. In 
a recent interview Doctor Carrel says that "the only 
thing that keeps men from living forever is the 
possession of a brain and nervous system.” 

Metaphysicians know that the brain and nervous 
system are the organ of the mind, and that man 
di'es because he is not wise in his directive power. 

"And the Almighty will be thy treasure, 

And precious silver unto thee” 

was the prosperity proclamation of our wise old 
friend Job. 

A "depression” took everything he owned, even 
his sons and daughters. But he was not defeated, he 
claimed his own and it was restored to him: 

"Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; 

I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me . . . 

And Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had 
before.” 


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Be Strong in the Lord 

1 praise and give thanks that I am strong in 
the Lord and in the power of His might. 

I praise and give thanks for the plenty, 
visible and invisible, that I feel and see 
everywhere. 


T o BE "strong in the Lord, and in the power 
of his might” means that we are seeking 
strength and power from sources other than 
the physical. Food and exercise are the usual sources 
of bodily vigor. We are not discussing mental 
vigor, which is gained by combining diet, discipline, 
and idealism. 

A study of Truth reveals that words based upon 
the authority of Spirit develop dynamic force. The 
difference between the force of a word based in 
physical things and one based in spiritual things is 
the difference between the effect one gets from con- 
tact with a wire carrying a light and a wire carrying 
a heavy voltage. 

The time will come when scientific metaphysics 
will measure mathematically the currents of energy 

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emanating from a brain charged with material ideas 
and one charged with spiritual ideas. At present the 
science of mind is quite primitive. We are, like 
Franklin, flying a few kites and making cursory 
excursions into a field of energy the control of which 
will eventually change our whole world. 

We have found however that very definite changes 
occur in our mind and body when we practice con- 
centration in the silence. This means that when we 
want to gain spiritual power we get still mentally 
and physically and turn our attention within. On 
our first entering this "silence” we close our eyes 
and ears, and with our concentrated attention fixed 
on an imaginary point within, we repeat silently 
any set of words that carry a spiritual idea. Witli 
practice we can make the inner connection without 
closing the eyes. 

In His directions for effective prayer Jesus told 
His disciples to go into the secret place and close 
the door, there to pray to the Father in secret, and 
the response would appear outwardly. Jesus some- 
times prayed all night. He taught persistence in 
prayer. We find that contact with the supermind — 
which Jesus named the Father — is sometimes quickly 
made in concentrated prayer; then again our mind 
is slow to see the inner light. The relation of our 
mind to creative Mind may be compared to the re- 
lation of a radio receiving set to a broadcasting 
station. As we must tun'e our radio set so that it will 
pick up waves from the proper station, so we have 
to acquire the ability to attune our mind to Divine 


TEACH US TO PRAY 


Mind, so we may learn by spiritual understanding 
the true ideas that exist eternally in Divine Mind. 

Ever}?- word has a quality that sympathetically re- 
lates it to an idea innate in the mind o£ man, and 
when the word is released it radiates an energy that 
contracts or expands the body cells and through 
them external nature. For example, words of praise, 
gratitude, or thanksgiving expand, set free, and in 
every way radiate energy. Words of failure or im- 
potence congest energy and cause the cells to crowd 
together, making nerves trembly and bones brittle. 

When the thoughts are lifted up to the contem- 
plation of our all-pervading and all-powerful Spirit 
Father and our voices ring out in words of praise 
and thanksgiving, the withered hands and shackled 
feet are freed, the walls of negation are shattered, 
and we step forth into a new consciousness of life. 

To those in the clutches of adverse words it seems 
a travesty to praise and give thanks to the God of 
strength and power, but thousands of those who 
have endured poverty ^d sickness for years find 
that their prison doors open when they praise and 
give thanks, like Paul and Silas, as related in the 
l6th chapter of Acts. They were praying and singing 
hymns to God when suddenly there was a great 
earthquake, all the prisoners’ chains were loosened, 
and Paul and Silas stepped forth free men. 

So you will find that you can be freed from all the 
prison ceils of mind’s blind thinking by lifting up 
your voice and heart in songs of praise and thanks- 
giving to the God of freedom, light, and life. 

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Face to Face with God 


j Thy Spirit strengthens both my soul and my 
' body, and I rest in the peace of wholeness 
and health. 

i Every anxious thought is stilled. Thy mighty 
I confidence and Thy peace infold me. Omni- 
j present Spirit substance fills my mind, and 
abundance is everywhere manifest. 

M any Christian metaphysicians who are 
quite familiar with the idea of the omni- 
presence of God address Him in terms that 
imply His absence. Instead of talking direct to God, 
who is always right in our midst, we talk about Him. 
We are apt to say, ‘'God strengthens both my soul 
and my body” instead of "Thy Spirit stren^hens 
both my soul and my body.” 

Our words betray our dominant state of mind, 
although the logic of Truth may belie this. We see 
logically that there cannot be any separation in 
spirit between the Creator and the created, but the 
created has the power to think of itself as separate 
from its source, and this thought makes a mental 
vacuum in which there is a total absence of spiritual 

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attributes. The human familj on this planet has set 
up this sort of a mental void, and unless we train 
our mind to think the truth, we find ourselves talk- 
ing to God as if He were in the next room or in somte 
faraway heaven in the skies. 

We in our day and age are not alone in making 
God the third person in our conversation. Bible 
authors did the same. We should remember that 
the people who live today are the same people who 
lived in the past, in other words, we are the people 
who thought ourselves separate from God life and 
thereby killed our body. We also are like some of 
the people who acted the part of the prodigal son, 
desiring to be again united with the Father. 

However we should not forget that although the 
Father was "moved with compassion, and ran, and 
fell on his neck, and kissed him,” the prodigal was 
yet "afar off.” No one save Jesus the Christ has 
fully bridged this gulf of separation, and we are 
excusable if we at times lapse into the old conscious- 
ness of absence from the Father. Jesus gives us the 
right cue when He affirms, "It is the spirit that 
giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words 
that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.” 

"For as the Father hath life in himself, even so 
gave he to the Son also to have life in himself.” 

We find that we must train our mind in trust, 
look persistently and continuously to God for all 
things, and rest in the assurance that what we ask 
and affirm in Spirit will surely come to pass. Jesus 
had such supreme confidence and faith in the Father 

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as the source o£ health and prosperity that His name 
has become the synonym and open door for the 
manifestation of those things. He said that whatever 
we asked of the Father in His name would be 
granted. Many persons get a very definite mental 
uplift and consciousness of Spirit by repeating audi- 
bly and silently the name Jesus Christ. But the name 
does not represent the real character of the person 
unless it is known to us through our acquaintance 
: with the person himself. Unless you have read about 
^ Jesus and tried to realize His love, wisdom, and 
, supermind power, you have no conception of the 
meaning of His name. Paul urged that we let Christ 
be formed in us. That means that through the 
study of the life of Jesus and the discipline He 
; gave His mind we shall put into our mind the same 
; ideas that He had. These ideas will form in our 
mind a new kind of man, which is God’s man. 

When you turn your attention to Spirit your mind 
makes contact with a realm of ideas very much above 
the level of your common thinking; and when you 
strike this mental stratosphere you are tremendously 
lifted up. Then you make your statements of Truth 
and whatever you decree comes to pass. Job’s friend 
Eliphaz said to him: 

"Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: 

Thereby good shall come unto thee. ... 

, Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be es- 
tablished unto thee; 

. And light shall shine upon thy ways." 

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I see myself as God sees me, strong, robust, 

healthy. 

The Spirit of industry, energy, and honesty 
now stirs me to aaion, and 1 am truly 
prosperous, 

T here is an idea quite prevalent in the public 
mind that we teach a system of thought and 
word juggling; that anyone anywhere can 
have any and every thing by merely repeating over 
and over certain magic words. It is true that words 
have magic in them and very often the result of the 
mental imagery evoked by them is so startling as to 
suggest Aladdin and his lamp. However a compre- 
hension of the whole philosophy reveals a well- 
balanced set of principles upon which it rests. By 
being determined one can project an isolated idea 
and get results without conforming to the accepted 
laws of human relationships. No one can use the 
dynamic power of thought and word in unbalanced 
ways without suffering undesirable reactions. To 
avoid this we keep before our mind’s eye the dom- 
inant existence of a divine order and law to which 


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we must conform if we are to attain enduring suc- 
cess. Jesus taught that He was the executive of a 
spiritual principle that was the source, the wisdom, 
and the power of everything He did. He urged His 
followers to look to the same inner power. "Seek, 
and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened 
unto you.” 

We who are striving to acquire an understanding 
of the divine law and to apply it in our life as Jesus 
did in His should set up the same intimate relation 
with the Father that He did. "For the Father loveth 
the Son, and showeth him all things that he himself 
doeth.” We are all the offspring of God and come 
•into sonship when we acquaint ourselves with His 
mind. 

In the beginning of our existence as free, thinking 
entities we had a certain consciousness of the Father- 
Mind, but continued thinking of ourselves as inde-r 
pendent of this Mind has formed a gulf of apart- 
ness. We are prodigals in the far country of sense 
life. Those of us who are beginning to see how poor 
and bare this material life is have turned our- faces 
to the Father’s house and are mentally journeying 
home. It is not a question of geographical locality 
but of mental recognition. "The kingdom of God 
is within you,” said Jesus. Seeking God within 
changes our whole mental viewpoint. We find our- 
selves right in the presence of creative Mind, and 
seeking to co-operate with this Mind, we receive 
spiritual inspiration and are guided in even the most 
minute details of life. 


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In the early stages of our spiritual awakening we 
realize our dependence upon God for all that we 
are, and our attitude is that of the humble, obedient 
child. Then gradually there arises within us the 
consciousness of sonship, the consciousness that God 
is the parent Mind and that w^e inherit all the ideas 
constituting this Mind. If we inherit these creative 
ideas it logically follows that we are to use them. 
This is where, as Jesus explained, the son becomes 
the co-operator with the Father in creation. "For 
as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to 
the Son also to have life in himself; and he gave him 
authority to execute judgment, because he is a son 
of man.” The claim that Jesus was the exclusive 
and only Son of God is here refuted: "because he is 
a son of man,” By divine right man is the executive 
power of God-Mind, and he will never fulfill the 
law of his being before he enters into the realization 
of his dominion and authority in the realms of 
mind and matter. 

Thus we see that we are warranted in affirming 
our unity with God and expecting the attributes o£ 
the perfect man to appear. "Judge not according 
to appearance,” Right in the face of adverse appear- 
ances enter into God-Mind and see yourself as He 
sees you, strong, robust, healthy. Jesus said, "Marvel 
not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that 
are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall come 
forth.” All those who believe in the inevitable con- 
quest of death are already in mental tombs, but 
when they realize that Jesus walked out of the tomb 

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and said, "Follow me,” they are lifted into the 
heavens of eternal life. Do not be afraid to go all 
the way with Jesus. 

When the prodigal son returned, the father ran 
to meet him, ordered the best robe to be put upon 
him, shoes on his feet, a ring on his hands; and he 
provided a feast, with merriment. Here is parabled 
th'e prosperity that ensues when man returns to the 
consciousness of God as his resource. In the world 
of affairs, industry, energy, and honesty are expected 
of those who would succeed. These qualities have a 
divine source and can be quickened and intensely 
energized by attaching them to the dynamic mind 
of God. "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall 
be established unto thee.” 



spiritual Soul Therapy 

I praise Thee and bless Thee for the con- 
sciousness of health and wholeness tlirough 
Christ. 

With all Thy people I praise and bless Thy 
i Spirit of plenty now manifest everywhere. 

P SYCHOANALYSIS is growing more popular every 
day because it measures the capacity of the 
soul. We are all interested in our soul and 
how to save it. Those who follow Jesus go one step 
further in soul therapy than the average psychoan- 
alyst; they incorporate Spirit with soul and make 
it the primal source and sustainer of both soul and 
body. "It is the spirit that quickeneth.” 

We make our soul out of the thoughts and words 
we entertain. Consequently we should be very care- 
ful in choosing our words, because they are the 
; means by which we convey Spirit to character and 
its structure. So instead of psychoanalysis let us say 
we have Spirit psychoanalysis. 

• Every word has its root in an idea, whether this 
\ idea is reflected from within or not. '\5^en we wish 


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to approve, extol, applaud, or commend we praise 
and bless. Words of this Idnd and tlie mental atti- 
tudes that they set up stimulate, quicken, whirl into 
action, and finally establish in character the ideals 
of which they are the vehicle. So let us remember 
that we use words as instruments of ideas and that 
it is the idea that we are seeking to enlarge and es- 
tablish by our words of praise and blessing. 

So "praise” and "bless” are words freely used by 
those who love spiritual values, because these words 
are heavily charged with capacity to express creative 
Mind. In themselves alone the words "praise” and 
"bless” are potent for good because they are asso- 
ciated with ideas that eulogize the good. These 
words are not found in the vocabulary of the pes- 
simist or atheist. From various sources we learn that 
scientists are experimenting with instruments like 
the lie tester that register mind emotions. These in- 
struments measure the force of fear and courage, 
sorrow and joy; in fact every emotion and mental 
attitude is coming under scientific observation, and 
it will not be long before we can produce graphs 
of the power of every thought as it registers on 
the nerve and brain cells of the body. When these 
brain testers definitely prove that certain emotions 
not only stimulate but permanently enlarge brain 
areas the cultivation of constructive states of mind 
will become part of our common-school curriculums. 

Metaphysicians find that words that express 
thanks, gratitude, and praise release latent energies 
of mind and spirit; and the effects of their use fol- 

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low SO quickly that they can almost be identified 
with the originating words. 

Let your words of praise and blessing be to Spirit 
and tlie increase will be even greater than it has 
been when addressed to man. The resources of Spirit 
are beyond our highest flights of imagination. You 
can praise a weak body into strength, a fearful heart 
into peace and trust; shattered nerves into poise and 
power; a failing business into prosperity and suc- 
cess; want and insufficiency into supply and support. 

The healing and prosperity thoughts in this Aap- 
ter are a guide for those who are trying to demon- 
strate the power of words to regulate health and 
finances. If you are in need of health use the state- 
ment as printed, putting special emphasis on the 
words "strength” and "power.” When using these 
health-producing words, direct your attention to 
Spirit as if it were an interpenetrating presence, 
which it is. Try to feel the quickening spiritual 
harmony and health, which will be manifested at 
once! or later, depending on your attitude toward 
the time element. If you join in thought with Silent 
Unity every night from nine to ten o’clock you will 
get a powerful uplift. In demonstrating prosperity 
you should praise and bless even minor evidences 
of financial improvement. 

Remember what Jesus said about your mental at- 
titude in demonstrating spiritually: "And all things, 
whatsoever ye shall ask m prayer, believing, ye shall 
receive”; which may be rephrased thus: Pray, believ- 
ing that you have received, and you shall receive. 

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My health is in Thee, and I affirm Thee and 
Thy life as the one and only source of my 
healing. 

i Thou art my resource, and in Thee I am 
bountifully supplied with all things. 

G od is spirit, and Spirit is located and ap- 
pears wherever it is recognized by an intelli- 
gent entity. It thus follows that whoever 
gives his attention to Spirit and seals his identifica- 
: tion with it by his word, starts a flow of Spirit life 
and all the attributes of Spirit in and through his 
consciousness. To the extent that he practices identi- 
fying himself with the one and only source of ex- 
istence he becomes Spirit, until finally the union 
attains a perfection in which he can say with Jesus, 
"I and the Father are one." 

Many persons who have been taught that God 
exists in a realm separate from His creations and 
that He has parts and passions like man discount 
. the claim that He is the. essence of man’s body. But 
; that Spirit is the essence of all things is good logic, 

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and those who have made the contact with Spirit 
life testify that it has revealed itself to them as the 
very source of their existence; that is, as creative 
Mind, God. 

Jesus was undoubtedly the most radical of ail the 
tliousands who have claimed that God revealed 
Himself to them right out of omnipresence. 

The same thought stuff that God used to create 
man is accessible to man at all times and in ail 
places. In fact we are using this all-potential thought 
stuff with every mental concept. Thus we plant 
ideas in the same soil in which God-Mind plants its 
ideas, and the offspring or fruit is of the same kind. 
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” 

Following the creative law that works constantly 
in Spirit substance and life, we find that we are 
creating permanent thought forms when our ideals 
are in harmony with divine law. We thus see that 
our immortal body is formed when our thoughts 
harmoni2e with what we intuitively know to be 
God thoughts, and the perishable body is formed 
when we think and speak words that are out of 
line with Truth as established in divine principle. 

God is Spirit. God is the source of all that we are, 
hence the source of life, substance, and intelligence. 
The one and only substance out of which all things 
are formed is right here at ail times, awaiting our 
recognition of it in its spiritual freedom. When we 
do recognize it in the simple faith that it will carry 
out our demands, we are doing just what Jesus did. 

In like manner the divine substance, out of which 

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ail things are formed, in its spiritual freedom is 
here in our midst waiting for us to form it into 
whatever we may decree. Thus it follows that God 
has actually planted man in a garden or paradise 
of potential substance (mental soil), out of which 
he can grow his prosperity. 

Thousands are testifying in this day that a greater 
work is being done in His name than was done in 
Palestine. 

Your health and prosperity will surely be demon- 
strated if you are faithful in your open-mindedness; 
in holding fast to healing and prosperity thoughts. 



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Thoughts Are Things 

I am no longer like Lot’s wife, preserving 
evil in mind and body by remembering it. I 
relax and willingly let go of all effete sub- 
stance, that the new, pure radiance of God 
may be made manifest in me, 

I My mind no longer clings to the complexity 
I of mortal finances. I am open to the splendor 
I of the kingdom of God within, and a flood 
of plenty follows. 

O NE OF the axiomatic truths of metaphysics 
is that “thoughts are things.” That the mind 
of man marshals its faculties and literally 
makes into living entities the ideas that it entertains 
is also a foregone conclusion. 

The word “things” expresses poorly the active 
and very vital character of the thoughts to which the 
mind gives life, substance, and intelligence. 

We see so many inanimate “things” around us in 
the material world, and we compare our creative 
thoughts with them and thereby get a very inferior 

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conception o£ the marvelous ability o£ our mind in 
its creative capacity. 

Shakespeare says, “The poet’s pen . . . gives to 
airy nothing a local habitation and a name.” At the 
same time the poet’s mind £orms in the ether a 
replica of his idea, and that replica takes up its 
habitation in his thought atmosphere and hence- 
forth injects into it a tincture of die sentiments that 
the poet orginally had. 

This ability of the Adamic man to “name” or 
give character, form, and shape to ideas is sym- 
bolically described in the 2d chapter of Genesis, 
where Jehovah God brought before Adam the ele- 
mental ideas or “beasts” of the Garden of Eden 
(called by metaphysicians the “ether”). “And what- 
soever the man called every living creature, that was 
the name thereof.” 

We often refer in Unity literature to the dis- 
coveries by modern science of the ether and its 
stupendous properties as confirming in scientific 
terms what Jesus taught in symbols concerning the 
properties of the ether, which He named the king- 
dom of the heavens. The Garden of Eden is a sym- 
bolic description of that elemental realm which 
modern science has named the ether. Science says 
that this ether fills all space, is not molecular, and 
possesses an amount of energy beyond comparison 
witli anything material; that all the complex phe- 
nomena of nature may be reduced to different kinds 
of waves of energy in the ether. Professor James 
Jeans says, “We live in a universe of waTes, andj 


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nothing but waves.” He also says that it may be that 
our mind lays hold of the atoms of our body and so 
forms the world about us. 

Here we see how very near to the teaching of 
religion scientific minds are approaching. They are 
virtually proclaiming the one life as the source of 
everything. Their next great proclamation will be 
that one directive intelligence is an essential cause 
of the harmonious universe. 

Every experienced metaphysician knows that 
man’s mind molds from an omnipresent element 
whatever takes form, shape, and intelligence and be- 
comes part of his thought world. That science in a 
measure confirms this is a source of gratification and 
a stabilizer of faith. Knowing that our world is com- 
posed of what we have idealized should make us 
more watchful of the activities of our mind. Are we 
still harboring thought forms that are impeding our 
soul’s progress ? Are we preserving our evil thoughts 
by thinking about them with fear in our mind? Or 
it may be that we yearn for the pleasures of the 
past and like Lot’s wife look back, thereby sub- 
jecting ourselves to the things of the past or with 
the salt of the mind preserving them. There are 
always better things just ahead for those who build 
in mind the living ihought entities that go before 
and open the way, 

Man lives in two worlds, the world of cause and 
the world of effect. The world of effect is at present 
in a complex tangle. Panaceas without number are 
offered. Thete is but one panacea and that is the 

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installation o£ an economic system in whidi human 
greed will be eliminated. To institute such a system 
will require men and women who have overcome 
greed in themselves. 

I£ you would help the world, and incidentally 
yourself, to better economic conditions, begin to 
deny your selfishness and greed and affirm, 

"I am open to the splendor of the kingdom o£ 
God within, and a flood of plenty follows.” 



The Supermind 

I join with all the hosts of heaven in declai:- 
ing that only the good is tme, and that good 
health everywhere is made manifest 

The rich substance of the kingdom of God 
is pouring its plenty perpetually into my 
mind and affairs, and I am in all ways 
prospered. 

T hat man in his spiritual nature is leagued 
with supermind realms is taught freely in the 
Scriptures and can be proved to the satisfac- 
tion of anyone who will submit to the required men- 
tal discipline. That these supermind forces are not 
always used to bring about good is no argument 
against their existence. Anyone who develops spir- 
itually in any way breaks into realms of thought 
energy superior to the intellectual and can incite to 
action subtle causes that mystify the average on- 
looker. For this reason every Christian metaphysi- 
cian should have some acquaintance with these facts 
about the supermind, which occupies so great a 
place in Truth demonstrations. 


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The question is often asked if tlie Indian medi- 
cine man or the African witch doctor uses the same 
force that the Christian healer does. The answer is 
yes. There is but one primal life in which we all 
exist and which we use as we will. The way in which 
we project this force determines whether we are 
Christian or pagan. If our thought is to destroy, 
we are pagan. If our thought is for peace, we are 
Christian. This law is operative not only in the 
nations but in every individual. As we are taught 
in our Bible, God originally guided man to think 
good only; but man was tempted and chose to be 
free and think for himself. This freedom threw the 
whole race into a mental vortex of "good” and 
"evil,” hate and love, war and peace. Christ is the 
Prince of Peace and Satan is the devil of destruction. 

These good and evil states of consciousness form 
the heavens and the hells of the race, and we go 
in mind to heaven or hell every time we mentally 
project the thoughts that "chord” with that particu- 
lar state. Only a supermastermind can overcome this 
law of mental affinity and set up in our earthly dis- 
cordant thought atmosphere a consciousness of peace 
and loVe. Jesus was able to do this, and when we 
think of Him, the Christ in us "tunes in” to the 
'Christ in Him and we are saved from the destruc- 
tive forces that tear soul and body asunder. 

The mental harmony of Jesus not only radiates 
throughout the earth but reaches into the heavens, 
where it taps the glory of the Son of God. When 
we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ or .^ 

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decree His presence and power in our spiritual 
work, we effect a reunion with His supermind and 
its tremendous ramifications in heaven and earth, 
and our own meager spiritual ability is augmented 
a thousandfold. Jesus understood and used this law 
of thought affinity when He claimed that the works 
He did were not His but the Father’s within Him. 
It was in this consciousness that He proclaimed, 
"All authority hath been given unto me in heaven 
and on earth.” He also affirmed a like spiritual 
unity for His disciples and for all those who pro- 
claim Him as their spiritual leader. His last promise 
was "And these signs shall accompany them that 
believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; 
they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take 
up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it 
shall in no wise hurt tliem; they shall lay hands on 
the sick, and they shall recover." This is found in 
the l6th chapter of Mark, where it is also written, 
"And they went forth, and preached everywhere, 
the Lord v/orking with them, and confirming the 
word by the signs that followed.” 

Peter and John developed marvelous healing 
power when they spoke the magic words to the lame 
man at the gate Beautiful: "In the name of Jesus 
Christ of Nazareth, walk." "And immediately his 
feet and his ankle-bones received strength. And leap- 
ing up, he stood, and began to walk.” 

For two thousand years those who have had faith 
in Jesus and proclaimed their faith in His name 
have had proof that He is present as a dynamic 

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life-giving force. Men and women with no previous 
healing power have suddenly become healers of 
marvelous ability. They do not claim to understand 
how the healing is done. They know only that 
through the exercise of faith and their word the 
spiritual quality in them is fused into unity with 
the power of Christ and the work is marvelously 
accomplished. 



cheerfulness Heals 


The joy of health and happiness in Christ 
I fills my body with new life, and I am made 
^ whole. 

i The love of the cheerful giver is expressed 
in me, and I feel Spirit pouring out its plenty 
into all my affairs. 

E verybody advocates cheerfulness as an aid to 
healing, but how few practice it as a vital, 
part of the restorative principle? The large 
majority of sick persons are pessimists. They think 
: they are much worse off than they are. They retard 
the healing efforts of nature and nature’s God by 
repeated shocks of mental depression and fear of 
the serious character of some physical shadow as 
1 transient as "ships that pass in the night.” 

Some of our best doctors say that eighty per 
.cent of humanity’s ills would heal of themselves 
iif left alone. In a book called "Let’s Operate,” by 
|Dr. Roy H, McKay and Norman Beasley, we find 
this in italics: 

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^^What people dofit know, or won’t believe, is 
that in eighty per cent oj the cases they would get 
better without the ministrations of a physician, if 
they would merely go to bed ard follow a proper 
diet.” 

To this the writers add: 

"This applies to operations too. Every day a dis- 
tressing number of unnecessary ones are being per- 
formed.” 

The authors of this book are not metaphysicians. 
Doctor McKay is an eminent surgeon. He says in 
his preface, "This book was written with great re- 
luctance.” 

So we find that good doctors, who have the wel- 
fare of humanity at heart, are advising that we do 
not race to the operating table at the first sign of 
pain. 

"Be of good cheer,” The intelligence that created 
your body knows how to repair it. Get still, relax, 
turn your attention to the sustaining life forces 
within your organism. Say to yourself, 

/ will fear no evil; for thou art with me. 

Don’t eat unless you are hungry. Many of our 
' ills are caused by a greedy appetite that, in being 
satiated, clogs the body with surplus fuel. Jesus 
• told His disciples that a certain type of devil (error) 
could be eradicated only by fasting and prayer. Then 
i rejoice and be glad when you begin to feel the heal- 
5 ing peace of Spirit creeping over you. 

- As we find cheerfulness conducive to health we 


TEACH US TO PRAY 

also find it paving the way for prosperity. Paul 
wrote, “God loveth a cheerful giver.” If the Lord 
loves a cheerful giver, it must follow that He takes 
a more intimate interest in the finances of a happy 
person than in those of one who handles his money 
in a stingy fashion. 

Make it a practice to put love and good cheer 
into all your finances, and you will open up sources 
of income that have stagnated because you have 
not given their mind substance an opportunity to 
flow into your affairs. 

You have doubtless met commercial Jonahs — 
sunk in the waters of their own negative statements. 
Avoid their pessimistic thoughts and words. Bless 
what you receive; bless what you send out. God's 
plenteous substance moves in and through our mind 
constantly like a light shining in the darkness, but we 
do not comprehend it. 

Cultivate the bountiful, cheerful spirit in every 
thought and act. Then your finances will flov/ har- 
moniously, and you will never lack any good thing. 


Love Harmonizes 


Thine harmonizing love is minej and I am 
restored to peace and health. 

Divine love, like a magnet, charges my mind 
and prospers my affairs. 


% MONO PEOPLE who observe and think there is 
/\ no question about love’s being the greatest 
/ \ harmonizing principle known to man. The 
question is how to get people to use love in ad- 
justing their discords. Where for a lifetime there 
has been continuous agitation for lawmaking and 
force as panaceas for the discords of humanity, the 
simple and easy methods of love seem childish and 
silly. The minds of reformers have as a rule been 
charged and surcharged with pictures of the unjust 
conditions in the world and their righteous indig- 
nation has often been excited to the boiling point. 
Their uppermost thought is how to outlaw or crush 
the oppressors. They fairly explode with indigna- 
tion when love or some of its attributes is proposed 
as a remedy. This brings up the matter of the com- 
ponent pa.rts of love, what the elements are that 

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constitute that very quiet and apparently powerless 
thing called love. 

Paul says (I Cor. 13) that love is patience, kind- 
ness, generosity, contentment, modesty, goodness and- 
good temper, truth, burden-bearing capacity, faith in 
everything, a hope for the happy outcome of every- 
thing, and never a thought of failure. These are some 
of the working parts of love, but not all. The fact is 
that love is fundamental in every activity of life, 
not only in the spiritual and mental but in the me- 
dianical and physical as well. 

Scientists describe gravitation as the force with 
which bodies attract each other. This definition holds 
’ good in the mental, in the physical, and for all we 
' know, in the spiritual realm. So what the physicist 
! calls gravitation is one of the activities of love. 
Withdraw for one instant the steady pull of love 
from mother earth and we, her children, would 
be plunged into the depths of space and darkness. 

, We should remember this when we are tempted to 
think that no one loves us. The spiritually devel-f 
oped soul gives thought and attention to these ap- 
; parently invisible yet powerful forces, and by re-i 
peated mental contacts it unifies spirit, soul, and 
! body in the one Mind, which sustains and unifies 
j all things. 

It is through this process of unfolding love that 
great souls are developed. Souls are not created 
. great but with the capacity to become great. Many 
factors enter into soul growth, some minor and 
some major, but a soul never attains supermind 


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LOVE HARMONIZES 


power without love. The reason why love is es- 
sential in a great soul is that love is the binding 
power, the factor so necessary to strengthening or 
fortifying the soul. Hate and antagonism are disin- 
tegrating, and they destroy the cohesion of the spir- 
itual electrons and protons of which the soul is 
built. 

There are metaphysicians who think that this 
earth is a temporary abiding place of the soul, a 
kind of kindergarten, where lessons are learned 
in a single lifetime that fit the soul at death to fly 
away to paradise or some beautiful place in the 
skies. This line of thought separates the soul from 
its source and builds a mental gulf between soul 
and body. The body is the precipitation of the soul 
or thinking part of man; if it has developed sensu- 
ality and separation, it must be redeemed by being 
unified with the soul, and this unification is ac- 
complished through love. When like Jesus we have 
developed love for all things, even for our enemies, 
then the body and all its elements become plastic 
: to thought and we have all power in heaven and in 
earth. The energy of light, through which creative 
Mind rules heaven and earth, is amenable to man 
when his mind of love synchronizes with creative 
Mind and he can say, "I and the Father are one.” 
According to physicists, nature in all its forms is an 
electromagnetic "solution” in which the atoms spin 
like cannon balls about one another; that is, nothing 
is solid, as it seems to be, but everything floats 
in ethereal space, ready to fly about at the impulse 


TEACH US TO PBAY 


of a directive mind of superenergy such as that of 
Jesus. With this understanding we can see that Jesus 
was stating facts of superscience when He said to 
His disciples, "If ye have faith as a grain of mus- 
tard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove 
hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and 
nothing shall be impossible unto you.” 

In his "Essay on Man” Pope must have had some- 
thing akin to this combination of gravitation and 
love in mind when he wrote, 

"When the loose mountain trembles from on high, 
Shall gravitation cease, if you go by?” 

In us who are followers of Jesus in the regenera- 
tion, which engrafts upon the natural man the 
spiritual genius that causes him to develop super- 
man power, it begins its work by inspiring us to do 
little things in love. From this doing grow larger 
capacities until we attain the full stature of the 
Christ man. 

According to Revelation, Jesus said, "He that 
overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me 
in my throne.” 

We begin our overcoming by thought mastery. 
We begin to master thoughts of hate and force by 
first thinking and doing the little component acts 
that constitute love. Begin today to be a little more 
patient. Practice kindness. Be generous in thought 
and act. When you are tempted to lose your temper, 
say, "I have a good temper.” Affirm your truth- 
fulness under all circumstances. If your burdens 


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seem greater than yon can bear, remember what 
Jesus said: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and 
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Develop 
spiritual faith by believing in spiritual forces capa- 
ble of accomplishing for you the seemingly impos- 
sible. Affirm a propitious outcome for everything 
you plan or do, and never admit failure in anything. 

"He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit 
down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, 
and sat down with my Father in his throne. He that 
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to 
the churches.” 



Casting Out Fear 

All-infolding God love and protection frees 
me from every thought of fear, and I am 
strong and well. 

My mind is filled and satisfied with Thine 
all-infolding substance, and all things 
are added. 

I T IS THE unanimous verdict of students of the 
mind that fear is a paraly2er of mental action; 
also that fear weakens both mind and body. 
This being so universally conceded, it certainly is 
not worth while to call attention to that enfeebling 
state of mind but rather, on the other hand, to show 
how to keep from falling into its shadows and also 
how to overcome its habits. The majority of people 
will resent the statement that fear is a habit, but 
close observation proves to anyone that his fears 
are governed by repeated thoughts, words, and ex- 
periences. All fears rest upon thoughts, and if the 
thought foundation can be broken up the fear will 
vanish. 

The mind imagines mountains of fears where no 


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real cause for fear exists. We live in a world where 
fear is taught as essential to safety. To begin with, 
we are told from infancy to “fear ’ God; then to 
fear evil in all its forms. With our mind crammed 
with fear images working night and day, how can 
we expect anything but the multitude of disasters 
that follow.? 

"Perfect love casteth out fear.” Jesus taught love 
of God as the first commandment and love of neigh- 
bor as the second; there was no need for any other 
commandments. These two round out the law. 
Then the one and only eflfective remedy for fear 
and its ills is love. 

We have all been told again and again that we 
must love God and our fellow man in order to ful- 
fill the law of our being. Doubtless most of us have 
done this and have had the experience of very pro- 
nounced demonstrations of peace and protection in 
our life, yet we do not have that consciousness of 
love which we feel we should have when we think 
of God. There must be a reason for this deficiency, 
and there is. We have thought of love to God in 
terms of something of immense size, something that 
we must encompass as a whole, when the fact is 
that love is a composite. It is made up of attributes, 
as is made clear by Paul in I Corinthians, 

According to Paufi love is the name of a great 
variety of little commonplace activities of everyday 
life. Are you patient and kind? "Love suffereth 
long, is kind.” Envious? "Love envieth not.” 
Egotistical and proud? "Love vaunteth not itself, is 


TEACH US TO PRAY 


not puffed up.” Are you temperamental.? Love "doth 
not behave itself unseemly.” Are you grasping and 
selfish? Love "seeketh not its own.” Do you give 
way easily to your temper? Love ''is not provoked.” 
Do you behold evil as real and agonize over the 
evils of the world? Love "taketh not account of 
evil.” Do you rejoice when disaster overtakes evil 
persons and exclaim, "They got just what was com- 
ing to them?” "Love . . . rejoiceth not in unright- 
eousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.” Do you pa- 
tiently bear "the whips and scorns of time” ? "Love 
. . . beareth all things.” Are you open-minded and 
receptive to good, whatever its source? "Love . . . 
believeth all things.” Do you anticipate the future 
with fear and forebodings? "Love . . . hopeth all 
things.” Do you endure with trust and confidence in 
eternal justice 

"The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, 
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, 

The insolence of office and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes”? 

Love "endureth ail things.” Paul says: "If I speak 
with the tongues of men and of angels, but have 
hot love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging 
cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and 
know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have 
all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not 
love, I am nothing. ... But now abideth faith, 
hope, love, these three: and the greatest of these 
is love.” 


CASTING OUT FEAR 


Nowhere in all literature do we find as clear an 
analysis of love as here in this 13th chapter of 
I Corinthians, Those who have taken it as a guide 
to character discipline — ^that is, seeking to fashion 
their daily thinking by the standards set forth — 
have attained results so pronounced that they have 
been convinced of its being a panacea for all who 
are suffering from the ravages of distorted, God- 
less love. 

/" The one and only remedy for the crosscurrents of 
fear is the restoration of the peace and harmony 
of life by love and its combinations. 



spiritual Hearing 

I give ear to Thee and now realize Tliy life 
in all my members, for Thou art my health 

unfailing. 

My mind is full of Thy substance, and my 
prosperity is always manifest in abundance. 

T he scriptures are rich in references to the 
listening ear. "He that planted the ear, shall 
he not hear.?” 

Jesus said, “What I tell you in the darkness, speak 
ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim 
upon the house-tops.” "He that hath ears to hear let 
him hear.” 

In many places the Bible indicates the ear re- 
ferred to is not the physical organ but the listening 
mind or spirit, “Having ears, hear ye not?” 

Then the question arises. Do we have ears that 
■can hear “overtones” from which the mind can 
obtain meanings superior to those of the senses? 
In every walk of life are those who stoutly claim 
that they hear voices and sounds, musical and other- 
wise, inwardly or apparently with another set of 
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ears. Sometimes these persons are geniuses and 
sometimes they are classed as "queer.” 

Physiology describes a complicated physical ear, 
but the "ear” that conceives and really hears is the 
auditory center in the brain. It is here the mind 
grasps and analyzes the sound vibrations. Thus 
musical people may have the same physical ears 
as the unmusical, but their minds have listened for 
the fine variations of sound and have given the 
auditory area in the brain a composer’s ego. The 
great Beethoven was a brilliant example. He was 
stone-deaf when he composed some of the most 
beautiful music of the world. But his "inner ear” 
must have been open to music that is not heard by 
everyone. 

What is true in music is also true in every religion, 
art, and science. Little Samuel heard the voice of 
the Lord. Joan of Arc heard militant voices. Modern 
psychics and many who are deeply religious hear 
voices, or sounds that they translate into voices, in 
their cerebral cortex. It is the bent of the mind 
that determines the character of the voice. Job said 
in substance that there is a spirit or mind in man 
that gives the breath or vibrations of the Almighty 
understanding. 

Practice giving ear or listening with your mind to 
the Lord. You will acquire the ability to make con- 
tact with the mind radiations of Christ and concen- 
trate them in your mind and actually hear His voice. 
On the contrary, by a like concentration of thought 
you can attract the mind of persons both in and out 


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of the body and thereby become a psychic and 
medium. Excessive meditation on things spiritual 
also often dulls the receptivity of the outer ear 
and it loses its alertness. 

Shakespeare says, "Give every man thy ear, but 
few thy voice”; that is, learn to listen rather than 
talk. Jesus called His first disciple Simon Peter. 
Simon means "hearing” and Peter "a rock.” Spir- 
. itual receptivity is the basis of a solid character. We 
ail need a fuller realization of life in order to be 
healthy. This can be attained by concentrating our 
’attention on the universal life radiations and in- 
jCorporating them into our mind and body. 

This world of matter has its origin in a radiant 
substance that our mind conceives and automatically 
translates into flesh and physical things. The process 
is so gradual that we do not realize it, but modern 
science is daily approaching an explanation that will 
eventually be universally accepted; then what we 
are teaching from the spiritual side will be con- 
firmed by the physical. 


Light of Life 

-553«€- 

' By Thy light and life I am strengthefled acid 

healed. 

I ''Every good gift and every perfect gift” 

? cometh from above, from the Father of light, 
and I am in all ways prospered. 

B ible writers use the word “light” to repre- 
sent intelligence. When Jesus said, “I am the 
light of the world,” He undoubtedly meant 
that He was the expresser of Truth in all of its 
aspects. In the 1st chapter of John light and Truth 
are synonymous. 

“There was the true light, epen the light which 
lighteth every man, coming into the world.” This 
does not mean that He was the light of all those 
who come into the physical world, but of those who 
are born of Spirit into the world of reality. Those 
who live in physical consciousness regard the light 
as a radiation of the sun through which people dis- 
cern the outline of things. But within this light 
that chases away the darkness is a principle hidden 
from the sense man. “And the light shioeth in the 

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darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.” 
Materiality is unillumined and has no power in 
itself to overcome its ignorance. So all attempts of 
intellect to lift man and the human family to higher 
states of consciousness will prove futile. There must 
; be an influx of spiritual energy and inspiration from 
‘ the "Father of lights.” 

Yet it is interesting to note how the discoveries 
of modern science are demonstrating phases of 
truth without bringing forth a single principle that 
will raise man spiritually. For example, light has 
been probed to its physical source and properties 
have been revealed of a world that was nonexistent 
to the physical man. Yet with all the marvelous 
know'ledge acquired about light no quality has been 
revealed that man can apply to his moral or health- 
restoring needs. The argument that light is a prop- 
erty of electricity that is being successfully applied 
to heal human ills is not borne out by facts. 

Yet the Scriptures treat light and intelligence as 
one. In the very first chapter of the Bible we are 
told that Mind became manifest as light. "And 
God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” 
But the mind that judges according to appearance 
never discerns the inner truth about light or any- 
thing else. 

^ We must know the Truth about the omnipresence 
: of the one intelligence in the light; then we shall 
; be made free from our intellectual darkness. Science 
; agrees with James that '‘every good gift and every 
perfect gift is from above, coming down from the 

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Father of lights.” Science says light is a very orderly 
and exceedingly productive wave motion in the 
ether, but science does not tell us that light is God 
: intelligence in action and that we can link our mind 
with the light and reap the benefit of its marvelous 
potentialities. 

Some Christian metaphysicians are shy about us- 
ing the scientists’ approach to their problems, fearing 
that they themselves will fall into a materialistic 
i trend of thought. However when we see scientists 
; telling in physical terms of the properties of God- 
: Mind, needing only to add the assumption of an 
i intelligent moving power, we have found the co- 
I operation of a very earnest and convincing lot of 
I truth seekers. 

So do not be afraid of the true physical scientist, 
but give his discoveries the light of mind. Then you 
will find that substance and life will become more 
obedient to your word of command. 

Remember that Moses received his great com- 
mand from Jehovah when he turned aside to see why 
the bush that burned was not consumed. Jehovah 
: spoke to him “out of the midst of the bush”; that is, 
God was in the fire that lighted an ordinary bush. 
Open your mind to the light of Spirit wherever you 
are. See with the eye of the mind that God is omni- 
present Spirit, "over all, and through all, and in all.” 


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The Spirit of truth floods me with the light 
of life, and I am made whole. 

The Spirit of truth reveals abundant Spirit 
substance, which I affirm to be the source 
of my prosperity. 


\ GAIN the Spirit o£ truth opens our mind to 
/\ God’s law of supply and support, to the 
/ \ existence of a universal etheric thought sub- 
stance prepared for man’s body sustenance by infinite 
Mind. We have thought that in answer to our 
prayers God in some mysterious manner brought 
about the marvelous demonstrations that we had. 


Now we see that there has been prepared from the 
beginning an interpenetrating substance that, like a 
tenuous bread of heaven, showers us with its abun- 


dance. 


But we must not only ask but bring the Spirit into 
consciousness by affirming its abundance to be the 
source of our prosperity. Then prosperity will be- 
gin to be manifested right in the face of apparent 
lack. Remember the invitation of the Master ‘ 'Hith- 


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erto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and 
ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.” 
When we greatly desire to be just and honest and 
in ail ways to express only that which is true under 
the divine law, our soul radiates energy waves into 
the ether that produce the color blue. The aura 
around the bodies of sincere, honest persons is 
usually bright blue or some modification of blue. 
Blue is nearly always associated with white in rep- 
resenting spiritual ideals. The birth of Jesus was 
heralded by a bright star in the blue vault of heaven, 
and the stars in our American flag have a blue 
background. 

Some persons think that when they quit lying 
they are demonstrating Truth. This is commendable, 
but falls short of fulfilling the complete reformation 
of the Spirit of truth. In the Gospel of John Jesus 
repeats in chapter after chapter the promise that He 
will send to those who believe on Him a Comforter, 
whom He calls "the Spirit of truth.” In the 15th 
chapter we read, "But when the Comforter is come, 
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the 
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, 
he shall bear witness of me.” In the l6th chapter 
we find these words: "I have yet many things to say 
unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit 
when he, the Spirit of tmth, is come, he shall guide 
you into all the truth.” "And I will pray the Father, 
and he shall give you another Comforter, that he 
may be with you for ever, even th^ of truth 
. . . for he abideth with you, and shall be in you,” 


TEACH US TO PRAY 


Never in the history of the world have there been 
so many religious cults as now. It is ”Lo, here! or, 
There” the world round. To one who is not well 
grounded in the fundamental principles of Truth 
this is ail very confusing. Jesus warned us to beware 
of man-made religions: "Go not ... after themJ’ 
"The kingdom of God cometh not with observa- 
tion.” "The kingdom of God is within you.” 

By exercise of his innate independence man lost 
his awareness of Spirit and was consequently cast 
out of the Garden of Eden or "paradise of God.” 
Those of us who are getting an understanding of the 
divine law are becoming aware again of the Spirit 
that rules in this wonderful kingdom of the mind. 

The Spirit of truth is the mind of God in its ex- 
ecutive capacity; it carries out the divine plan of the 
originating Spirit. It proceeds from the Father and 
bears witness of the Son. We have in the operation 
of our own mind an illustration of how Divine 
Mind works. When an idea is fully formulated in 
our mind and we decide to carry it out, our thoughts 
change their character from contemplative to ex- 
ecutive. We no longer plan, but proceed to execute 
what we have already planned. So God-Mind sends 
forth its Spirit to carry out in man the divine idea 
imaged in the Son. 

It is very comforting to know that there is a 
Spirit co-operating widi us in our efforts to mani- 
fest God’s law. God in His divine perfection has 
seemed so far removed from our human frailties 
that we have lost heart. But now we see that Jesus 



THOUGHT SUBSTANCE 

taught that God is intimately associated with us in 
ail our life’s problems and that we need only ask 
in His name in order to have all fulfilled. 

The Spirit of truth is God’s thought projecting 
into our mind ideas that will build a spiritual con- 
sciousness like that of Jesus, The Spirit of truth 
watches every detail of our life, and when we ask 
and by affirmation proclaim its presence, it brings 
new life into our body and moves us to observe 
hygienic and dietary laws that restore health. 



Intensified Zeal 


The zeal of God quickens, vivifies, and vital- 
izes both mind and body and makes me 
every whit whole. 

My zeal for spiritual things increases, and I 
am abundantly prospered, praise God! 

P ERSONS with poise and purpose, holding them- 
selves well in hand, regard with some sus- 
picion those who are unduly zealous. When 
zeal runs away with judgment, energy is wasted and 
confidence blasted. The fires o£ zeal are soon burned 
out and the cause and its champion may be slight- 
ingly referred to as ‘’flashes in the pan." Neverthe- 
less, zeal, intensity, enthusiasm, is essential to the 
achievement of any and every great purpose. 

We usually judge zeal by the noise it makes. But 
noise is not characteristic of the zeal that overcomes 
seemingly insurmountable obstacles and wheels them 
into line with its quiet yet mighty energy of pur- 
pose. When you see men and women worMng 
steadily and unselfishly toward some cherished goal, 
do not conclude that They are moved by some selfish 



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motive, the attainment of which will give them 
personal pleasure. They are fired by an impulse o£ 
soul that boils with an inward flame and urges 
them onward, regardless of the outer mind of cau- 
tion and conservatism. 

The trait of man named variously zeal, enthu- 
siasm, intensity of soul, is a prime faculty of spir- 
itual man. It is found in one of the disciples of the 
type man Jesus, and its character is revealed in his 
name, Simon the Zealot. 

Zeal’s throne or center of activity in the body is at 
the base of the brain, in the medulla. It is the seat 
of the animal soul, and its office is to vaporize the ; 
fine nerve fluid and distribute it to the senses. The 
medulla performs in the body the work of the car- 
buretor in a motorcar. 

; An intense desire to carry out some idea forces 
5 the nerve fluid into the medulla, where it is atomized ; 
' with inspiration (air) and then flared through the 
optic nerve to the eye, where the Spirit ignites it, 

; and it flashes into light. "It is die Spirit that giveth 
‘ life.” 

When the Spirit moves a man from within to 
the accomplishment of some dierished ideal and 
the intellect steps in and says it can’t be done, a 
conflict ensues and the natural flow of the volatile 
body is impeded. Congestions and clots form in the 
cirailation, the man gradually slows down, and 
what are called the marks of old age appear. This 
is why man should never give up the quest for 
greater and better expression of God-given abilities. 

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The hop, skip, and jump, the buoyancy and joy of 
youth, should be cultivated and continued more 
enthusiastically as the years advance. The idea that 
man grows feeble with years is a foolish fallacy. The 
longer one lives the better one should know how 
to live. 

The attention of the followers of Jesus in the 
regeneration is called to the many lessons and warn- 
ings that He gave regarding man’s zeal for com- 
mercialism. He rebuked Satan, the adverse mind, 
for suggesting that He demonstrate how to turn 
stones into bread. He warned, "Lay not up for 
yourselves treasures upon the earth." One of His 
earliest works was putting the commercial activities 
out of His body temple. "Take these things hence; 
make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise." 

Then His disciples remembered that it was writ- 
ten, "Zeal for thy house shall eat me up." Jesus ex- 
plained that the "house" He referred to was His 
body. He was cleansing His body of a dominant 
race thought, the desire to accumulate money. 

The people of the world today are so zealous for 
the solution of economic problems that they have 
forgotten God. They do not ask for wisdom to 
guide them in the nation’s industrial affairs, but 
they plan and sclieme and wrangle and get deeper 
and deeper in debt; that is, into the clutches of the 
beast of greed that puts its mark of slavery upon 
f all who worship it. 

j Be zealous for spiritual realities. Lay up for your- 
* selves treasures in die heavens. 


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My understanding of Truth reveals the un- 
reality of sickness and the reality of health. 
I am radiant with the understanding that 
abiding health is my divine inheritance. 

My understanding of the omnipresence of 
elemental substance opens the door to a con- 
tinuous inflow of superabundance into my 
mind and affairs. 


I ACK OF understanding, not only individual but 
collective, confronts us on every side. We 
blunder tlirough life instead of walking con- 
fidently, open-eyed. Or we sit in the City of Inde- 
cision waiting for something to turn up when, urged 
; and guided by the inner light, we should be going 
forth to meet good fortune. 

We never weary of quoting that wise observa- 
■ tion of Job’s "There is a spirit in man, and the 
, breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.” 
Most persons think that understanding is gained by 
intellectual development, mostly in institutions of 


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learning. But the Book o£ Job was written by one 
who had great understanding but no literary de- 
grees, so far as is known. Some authorities claim 
the book is at least five thousand years old; but 
Job knew much about Spirit both in Jehovah and 
in man. In the passage quoted he uses the pronoun 
'‘them” instead of "he” in referring to man, thus 
revealing that he understood the spiritual nature of 
man to be dual: male and female. Job’s familiarity 
with Spirit and spiritual laws is evidence to a meta- 
physician that he gained his understanding direct 
from Spirit. Jesus taught, "It is the spirit that giveth 
, life.” 

, We would not belittle intellectual knowledge if 
I it is acquired under the guidance of Spirit. The one 
land only object of man’s existence is the develop- 
I ment of his soul, and any attainment, whether men- 
; tal or material, that cannot be associated with and 
; counted as an aid toward that end will ultimately 
be refused. So it is the concentration of the mind 
, upon Spirit that reveals the truth about the many 
situations that meet us in our daily contacts. If we 
, count heafth and disease as equal, the "thought 
stuff” of our mind will animate them with like 
potency. We shall find ourselves believing that dis- 
ease is just as real and far more catching than health. 

Yet a moment’s analysis of the relation between 
disease and health shows that health is the real, the 
God-given condition, and disease the unreal, the 
abnormal, from which we are all seeking to escape. 
Truth not only shows the reality at the core of all 


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. things; it also shows that we shall never escape 
from the unreal so long as we allow our mental 
' processes to clothe it with "thought stuff.” 

If you deny disease as devoid of reality and 
affirm health as spiritual and abiding, the Spirit 
will bear witness with your spirit and you will dem- 
onstrate health. 

Daily concentration of mind on Spirit and its 
; attributes reveals to man that the elemental forces 
; that make matter are here in the ether awaiting 
; our recognition and appropriation. It is not neces- 
i sary to know all the details of the scientific law in 
; order to demonstrate prosperity. Go into the silence 
daily at a stated time and concentrate on the sub- 
; stance of Spirit prepared for you from the founda- 
: tion of the world. You will thus open up a current 
; of thought that will bring prosperity into your 
affairs. 



Joy Radiates Health 


The joy of Jesus Christ sets me free, and I 
am healed. 

I rejoice as 1 realize Thine all-providing plan 
now fulfilled in me. 

N ow WE HAVE reports of a sanitarium where 
laughter is the only healing remedy. Time 
was when such an institution would not 
only have been subject to the ridicule of the com- 
munity but its promoters would doubtless have come 
under the insanity regulations. But now that not 
only psychology but medical therapy is giving atten- 
tion to the effect of the emotions on the health, the 
systematic cultivation of joy is looked upon favor- 
ably as a healing agent. 

; "A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; 
But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.” 

Solomon or some other wise author of Proverbs 
wrote that thousands of years ago, and it is good 
, doctrine today. The historical records of the race 
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that people have changed vety little in their domi- 
nant characteristics during that time. Solomon, re- 
puted the wisest man of his age, rendered his judg- 
ments from the testimony of the emotions rather 
than the facts as they were given in his court. The 
Bible tells of his appeal to the love of the two 
women who claimed the same infant as their child, 
calling for a sword to divide it so that each woman 
might receive half. The real mother begged that 
the sword should be not used, and of course the 
case was decided in her favor. 

Legend says that Solomon amazed the Queen of 
Sheba by his quick solution of problems that she 
proposed. She dressed a group of boys and girls in 
exactly the same clothes and demanded that he tell 
the sex of each. He ordered basins of water for 
them to wash their hands in. The boys all plunged 
their hands in the water and got sodden cuffs, while 
the girls carefully rolled up their sleeves. Then a 
combination of real and artificial flowers were 
brought in; the queen demanded that Solomon point 
out the difference. He sent for a swarm of bees and 
readily made a decision. The queen was so pleased 
with Solomon’s wisdom that she made him a love 
offering equal to three hundred and sixty thousand 
dollars. 

In our modern practice of spiritual healing we 
find sadness and sorrow to be the cause of many 
physical ills. We also find that happiness is natural 
to man and that he can release it from his inner 
life through an understanding of Truth. 


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The study of the spiritual side of life awakens in 
mind, and even in body, emotions that convince one 
of the reality and eternal continuity of life, regard- 
less of the changes that take place in outer mani- 
festation. 

Isaiah had a consciousness of this when he wrote 
in the 35th chapter of his book: "And the ran- 
somed of Jehovah shall return, and come with sing- 
ing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon 
their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and 
sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” 

Zion represents spiritual peace, a peace that comes 
to those who attain an understanding and conscious- 
ness of Spirit and its activities in the soul. 

Sorrow used to be considered a virtue among 
religious people, but this notion is being dissolved 
among the enlightened. Death has been the greatest 
source of sorrow, but evidence that the soul con- 
tinues to live after it leaves the body is being pro- 
duced from so many sources that the sense of sepa- 
ration is being rapidly removed, and many people 
now believe that we continue to exist as thinking 
entities whether in the body or out of tlie body. 

Of all men who have lived on earth Jesus un- 
derstood best the joy of the spiritual life, and He 
had the power of imparting that joy. 

"He shall weep and lament, but the world shall 
rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall 
be turned into joy.” "These things have I spoken 
unto you that my joy may be in you, and that your 
joy may be made full.” 


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"Selah!” 


- 555 ^ 

I have set the Lord always before my face^ 
therefore my heart is glad and my flesh 
resteth in confidence. 

I have faith in Thee as my unfailing resourcCj 
and I am in all ways prospered. 

U HAVE SET Jehovah always before me: 

I Because he is at my right hand, I shall not 
JL be moved. 

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; 
My flesh also shall dwell in safety.” 

The Psalms constituted the hymnbook of the early 
church, and no finer example of religious fervor 
and devotion and literary excellence can be found 
in the lyrics of any people. 

Although the author of the Psalms is usually re- 
ferred to as David, that great poet and musician is 
by critics credited with considerably less than half 
of the one hundred and fifty hymns that appear in 
our Bible. 

Psalm means “lyric,” and the heading of each in- 
dicates to the musician what attitude of devotion 
should precede its rendition, “Selah” is the most 

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common heading. Bible authorities are not all agreed 
as to its precise meaning, but a very general opinion 
is that it means "pause,” "silence,” "to be still.” 
But why pause before the music has even begun? 
Just here is where an understanding of spiritual 
law helps one. Before any act that involves direct 
appeal to God tliere should be a silent recognition 
of God’s presence, of Jehovah-shammah, "The Lord 
is present,” which is one of the sacred names of 
Jehovah. 

In all our prayers, talks, and songs with God as 
the subject, we should first have a period of silence, 
a selah, in which the divine presence is invoked 
as the creative power. Then we can proclaim with 
Jesus, "I speak not from myself: but the Father 
abiding in me doeth his works.” The heading of 
Psalm 16 is "Michtam of David.” One authority 
says michtam means "gold,” another "excellence,” 
and still another "mystery.” It means all of these 
and more. Beginning at verse 8, we have a prophecy 
of the supreme overcoming demonstrated by Jesus: 

i "I have set Jehovah always before me: 
i Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be 
’ moved.” 

Jehovah is the name of the supermind in man 
and is called the Christ in the New Testament. 

; Give first place in all your thoughts and acts to this 
; all-powerful presence and you will realize the "right 
: hand” of guidance and steadfast conviction, 
i A “glad” heart speeds up the circulation and 

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sweeps eflfete matter from the blood stream; thea 
the flesh rests in confidence and health appears. 

The prosperity word is one that we have often 
used in our Unity thought ministry during the past 
fifty years. Some of you may cast it aside as thread- 
bare, but don’t be hasty. You may have used it many 
times, with varying degrees of success, but no one 
has exhausted its possibilities. 

The producing power of a word depends upon 
the ability of its user to uncover its inner meaning 
and apply it to his particular needs. When you use 
the word ”Thee,” do you think what its antecedent 
is? You will quickly say "God,” but "God” covers 
a multitude of creative forces. In this case you are 
working to bring prosperity into your affairs; hence 
you should fill your mind with images and ideas 
of the all-providing, all-supplying One. Andent 
Hebrew seers and adepts like Moses and Elijah 
understood this, and they had seven sacred names 
for Jehovah, each of which represented Him in His 
specific creative ability. 

Jehovah-jireh means "Jehovah will provide,” and 
anyone who concentrates his mind on this mighty 
One and persistently afiirms His presence and power 
visible and invisible will be provided for regardless 
of any opposing circumstances. Should the Lord 
seem to be absent, use the hidden name of this 
mighty presence, Jehovah-shammah ("the Lord is 
present”), and you will soon feel the dynamic life 
and substance of creative Mind charging the ether 
with its living productiveness. 

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I separate myself in consciousness front the 
mind of the flesh, that I may enter into the mind 
that was in Christ Jesus. 

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T ffls affirmation is a good one to take into the 
inner consciousness, and we would emphasize 
the word "consciousness.” This whole matter 
of soul unfoldment depends upon the consciousness 
that we have. 

We have no independent mind — there is only 
universal Mind — but we have consciousness in that 
Mind, and we have control over that consciousness. 
We have control over our own thoughts, and our 
j thoughts fill our consciousness. By analyzing our- 
; selves we find that we unconsciously separate our 
I self into different personalities. Now we should 
; do this work consciously. We should enter into the 
I understanding that the I AM power (all power) is 
1 given unto us in consciousness, and then join or 
■ unify this consciousness with the great Christ mind. 
Thus the central idea in this word of affirmation 
that we are seeking to understand and to incor- 
porate into our consciousness is the Christ mind. 
As spiritual metaphysicians we find that the Christ 
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o£ man it functions as two states of consciousness: 
one in tlie flesh, the other in the Spirit. But the mind 
i of the Spirit is the source of all. 

In daily worship it is well to impress upon the 
sensitive mind that it is unified with Divine Mind 
through Christ, through the same mind that was 
in Christ Jesus. 

Understanding this as the basic principle of our 
thought and realizing the power of thought to im- 
press itself upon the sensitive plate of man’s mind, 
we find this prayer invaluable: 

[ 1 separate myself m consciousness from the 
I mind of the flesh, that 1 may enter into the mind 
! that teas in Christ Jesus. 

First we disentangle our thoughts from the flesh 
and lift our consciousness up to Spirit. We hold 
them steady in spiritual consciousness until they be- 
gin to get hold of Spirit essence, Spirit power, 
Spirit love. Everything that we see in the manifest 
comes from this one Spirit-mind; so it is well to 
hold this affirmation until the most sacred ethers 
respond to our realization: 

.. I separate myself in consciousness from the 
mind of the flesh, that I may enter into the mind 
that was in Christ Jesus. 

When considering the value of prayer and real- 
ization we call to mind the case of Jacob and Esau 
receiving the blessing of their father Isaac, 

It was customary to give the first-born the prior 


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blessing, and this blessing of the first-born belonged 
to Esau. But through the connivance of the mother, 
Rebekah, and Jacob himself, Jacob got the blessing, 
and of course by a subterfuge. The procedure was 
really a dishonest one, and Esau was wroth with 
his brother Jacob for taking his blessing and threat- 
ened his life. The mother advised Jacob to fiee to 
the country of her brother Laban, and Jacob imme- 
diately set out on his journey. He was however in 
a wilderness of thought. 

As metaphysical Christians we take this Scripture 
to be a spiritual history of man as well as a history 
of outer events. We try to read it in the spirit ap- 
propriate to it. Spiritual things must be spiritually 
discerned. The Bible is a spiritual book. We arrive 
at a greater understanding and enhance our interest 
in the different characters of Jacob and Esau when 
we look upon them not only as individuals but as 
representatives of the race as a whole. 

If we study the four characters of Isaac, Jacob, 
Esau, and Rebekah, we find that they represent 
dominant ideas in man, ideas that pertain to his 
very being, that are of vital interest. As we read 
out of the law we find that Esau — a hunter, a person 
subservient to his bodily appetites, a man of the 
flesh — represents tlie flesh, the body. A person of 
a little different turn of mind, a man who loved 
home and the quiet spiritual things of life, Jacob rep- 
resents the mind, the intellectual man. 

Of course in the process of evolution the natural 
man comes first. Then the spiritual man begins to 


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unfold in us. Here in the Bible story we find that the 
spiritual man, or rather the intellectual man illu- 
mined by Spirit, gets the blessing. The Israelites set 
great store by this blessing. Rightly understood, a 
blessing is a great source of inspiration. It lays a 
firm foundation in the mind, and it brings out the 
good. A curse sees the evil and emphasizes it; but 
a blessing sees only the good and emphasizes only 
the good. Thus we come to see the importance for 
the soul’s evolution of an understanding of the 
development of these two Biblical characters. 

As we look at the blessing that Isaac gave Jacob 
and Esau — for he did bless Esau after he had blessed 
Jacob, though he gave Esau the blessing that would 
bring out his character — we discover that he was 
governed by law. The blessing he gave Jacob was 
one upon the mind and not upon the body; in fact, 
it was a blessing of the part of the race mind con- 
cerned with service, the part that has to do with the 
exercise of authority. 

In this blessing there is a calling forth of those 
inherent faculties of the mind which enter into the 
exercise of authority. “Let people serve thee.” The 
mind dominates the body. “Let . . . nations bow 
down to thee.” We also see nations being dictated 
to by some mind, some dictator. 

“Let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: 
Cursed be every one that curseth thee, 

And blessed be every one that blesseth thee.” 

Here we can see the power of ideas to bless or to 
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curse. We see that he who uses his mind to curse 
gets the curse in return, while the mind that blesses 
receives blessings in return. 

If we study our mind we find that it is radiating 
energy constantly and that whatever we send out 
comes back. This is true of tire mind of man, and 
we see it in evidence everywhere, not only indi- 
vidually but collectively. 

To Esau Isaac said, 

"Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy 
dwelling. 

And of the dew of heaven from above; 

And by thy sword shait thou live, and thou shalt 
serve thy brother.” 

Here in these symbols we have the body man or man 
of the flesh. "The fatness of the earth shall be thy 
dwelling”: man lives very close to the earth. "And 
by thy sword shalt thou live”: the man of flesh is 
sent forth by the man of the mind to carry out his 
warring ideas. Intellectual man is the general or the 
governor or the dictator that sends the man of the 
flesh to do his biddings. 

"And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break 
loose, 

That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.” 

In the evolution of man, the body (Esau) finally 
comes into its own. The Isaac blessing is carried out 
in the v/orld today. We find that the working classes 

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that have been under the yoke o£ the intellect— 
the intellectual man — ^now are beginning to assert 
themselves. They are breaking loose from the yoke 
of bondage to the intellect, the mind; the flesh is 
beginning to assert itself. We are giving more at- 
tention to the flesh every day. People are awaking 
to the fact that the body is an important part of 
man, and so we see everywhere the fulflllment of 
this blessing. 

If we study ourselves, we find a tendenq^ toward 
the working out of the two minds. The tendenqr of 
the intellect is to dominate, to have its way and 
ignore the body. But the body is beginning to break 
loose from this bondage and demand its own. It is 
saying to us: "Why, I am a very important part of 
this world. You can’t leave me and go off to some 
faraway place. I am an important part of you." So 
with Esau the flesh begins to break loose from this 
dominance of the mind that has separated it from 
the good things of the heavenly estate. We raise it 
up, and it begins to become a power in the world. 
We must soon come to a place in our national, 
social, and economic evolution where the earth and 
all that it has will be recognized in a larger way, 
become an integral part of our life. This is very 
clearly taught in this story of the mind and the 
heart. Isaac (the I am) recognized this unity and 
brought it into expression in his blessings of his two 
sons. 

We have these two "sons," the mind and the 
body. It is the mind that connects us with Principle. 

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Jacob made this connection, but Esau had as yet 
failed to come to the place where he could recog- 
nize that he was a son of God. Jacob took that 
blessing from him. He became the sole representative 
when he was really the secondary one, but he forged 
ahead in the race; and so we have today the in- 
tellect dominating almost everything. It is evident 
.that the Jacob faculty (the illumined intellect) has 
assumed its prerogative in the world today. The 
illumined intellect rules. God is omnipresent, God 
, is intelligence, just as much in our mind as any- 
where. The blessing of the I am consciousness brings 
out the intelligence that has the greatest ruling 
' power. But we find that we must also bless the body 
as well as everything connected with it. 

As we study the Bible we find that after he broke 
away from the material consciousness Jacob had 
many experiences. He went into another state of 
consciousness (another country), in which he was 
awakened spiritually to a still higher plane. In the 
; 16th verse of the 28th chapter of Genesis we read: 
"And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, 
Surely Jehovah is in this place; and I knew it not.” 
.He was in the sleeping state of consciousness. He 
had a dream and saw a ladder extending from the 
earth up into heaven and angels or messengers of 
, God ascending and descending it. Jehovah was at 
the top of this ladder, and He told Jacob that he 
was to be the father of a great nation and that a 
certain blessing was to be poured out upon him. 
.When Jacob awoke he saw that God was in the 

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place where he was; that the place was the very 
"house of God,” the dwelling place of God. 

In other words, here was evidence of omnipres- 
ence. Each individual must have his first awakening 
to the truth that God is everywhere and that, what- 
ever may be the place, God is there as omnipresent 
Spirit-mind. In this instance Jacob was surrounded 
i by rocky hills, and he piled up stones and made an 
, altar to Jehovah right there. The great lesson for 
! us is that God is everywhere, no matter how material 
i the surroundings may seem to be. To the unregener- 
;ate man there is usually a great awakening in an 
experience of this kind. 

When man begins to see beneath the surface and 
i to realize that God is with him constantly, he seeks 
! to make a union with infinite Mind, omnipresent 
■ God-Mind. The Scripture reads: "And Jacob vowed 
I a vow, saying. If God will be with me, and will 
: keep me in this way that I go, and will give me 
! bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come 
again to my father’s house in peace, and Jehovah 
will be my God, then this stone, which I have set up 
for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all tliat 
thou shait give me I will surely give the tenth unto 
thee.” 

Here was a covenant or an agreement made by a 
man at the moment of his first great illumination as 
regards the one omnipresent substance. He may 
have realized before that God was the great I am, 
the Jehovah, leading him, but he did not realize tiiat 
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realiy representative: that they are a part, a living 
part, of the God substance; that the I AM man in his 
illumination has a share in that substance; that it is 
his substance through infinite Mind. The covenant 
of Jacob to give one tenth of all his increase was 
the real beginning of what in modern times we call 
tithing: making God a partner in all our finances. 

Jacob became a great financier of the ancient 
world, and through the illumination that he got 
from Jehovah he knew how to take advantage of 
every opportunity. 

We do not take Jacob as an example of how 
man should handle his finances, for he was some- 
thing of a trickster. In truth he represents the trickery 
and cunning of the world in this field. But appar- 
ently Jehovah, the one Mind, was with him. Some- 
times there are contradictions that we cannot always 
understand; but when we know that we are the 
directive power as regards all that belongs to us, 
we may get on financially. But in the end there is 
an adjustment, illustrated in the meeting of Jacob 
. and Esau at the ford Jabbok 

But with it ail Jacob loved Jehovah and shared 
his wealth with the Lord. He proved the law of 
tithing, that tithing is one of the foundation prin- 
ciples of financial success. Man can become a great 
possessor of the substance of this world if he fol- 
lows certain rules of tithing. Jacob gives us the key, 
which is the recognition that God is all substance, 
and that if man wants to handle this substance wisely 
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success, he should do what Jacob did: take God into 
partnership with him. 

There is an omnipresent economic Mind, and if 
a man begins to deal with this economic Mind he 
will have a partner that has all resources. 

If you want to become a rich man, if you want 
i to be possessed of every good thing in the world, 
take God as your partner, incorporate His mind 
: into your mind, in your daily giving. Give of your 
; substance with the thought that it is God's money 
; you are handling. Realize that it is His tenth that 
you are giving for His glory. With this thought in 
your mind you will begin to attract new spiritual re- 
sources, and things will begin to open up in your 
aRairs. You will Imow that infinite Mind is with 
: you. That is what Jacob realized, and he attained 
great success in his affairs, I would say to everyone 
who wishes to demonstrate prosperity: take God into 
partnership with you and you will demonstrate 
abundance. 



The Sevenfold Cleansing 

Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and 
thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt 
be clean. 

T he 5th chapter of II Kings relates the healing 
of Naaman by Elisha. Naaman was the cap- 
tain of the hosts of Syria, but he was a leper. 
The Syrians had brought away captive out of the 
land of Israel a little maiden, who waited on Naa- 
man’s wife. She said to her mistress, "Would that 
my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! 
then would he recover him of his leprosy.” 

The incident was told to the king of Syria and 
he sent a letter, with presents of silver, gold, and 
raiment, to the king of Israel, requesting that he 
heal his general, Naaman. When the king of Israel 
read the letter he rent his clothes and said, "Am I 
God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth 
send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but 
consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a 
quarrel against me.” 

When Elisha heard of it he sent word, "Let him 
come now to me, and he shall know that there is 
a prophet in Israel.” 

So Naaman came with his horses and with his 
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Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, 
"Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy 
flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be 
clean.” 

But Naaman was wroth and went away and said, 
"Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, 
and stand, and call on the name o£ Jehovah his 
God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover 
the leper. Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers o£ 
Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may 
I not wash in them, and be clean ?” So he turned and 
went away in a rage. 

And his servants came near and spoke to him 
and said, "My father, if the prophet had bid thee do 
some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? 
how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, 
and be clean?” 

Then he went down and dipped himself seven 
times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the 
man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh 
of a little child, and he was clean. 

This demonstration of spiritual healing doubtless 
took place just as related, and again and again it 
has been a source of encouragement to those who 
have believed in the healing power of God. But 
to all who read Scripture in the spirit this narrative 
is rich in clues to a method of healing for all men 
who can discern and use the law set in action by 
Elisha. 

Elisha is often referred to by the Bible com- 
mentators as a forerunner of Jesus. His marvelous 

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works are easily recognized as proceeding from 
the same Spirit that inspired Jesus, and his gentle 
ness and simplicity are paralleled only by those of 
the great Master. 

It is not difficult to see in Elisha an incarnation 
of the Christ, and he was in a certain degree Christ 
manifest. Jesus was a fuller manifestation of the 
same Christ. 

If we admit that Elisha is a type of Christ — that 
is, of the Jehovah or supreme I am of man — we 
should admit with equal readiness that the other 
characters in the narrative are types of various 
powers or traits common to all men. 

Starting with a certain understanding of man in 
the three departments of his being, spirit, soul, and 
body, we discern Naaman to represent the will, 
Syria the intellect, the king of Israel the ruling power 
in the domain of intellectual thought. The "little 
maiden" is representative of a rudimentary intui- 
tion that has been captured by the intellect and is 
being made to serve its ends. The river Jordan is the 
life current flowing into man’s subconscious nature 
from the one great life. This "river of life" is the 
•source of the natural healing impulse that con- 
stantly reconstructs and restores the organism. 

The will through its conquests in the sense world 
has gained the applause of men and is called 
"great," "honorable," "mighty." This exaltation of 
will stimulates the personal ego until it ignores any 
power higher than itself. This supreme egotism 
; stops the flow of spiritual life in the organism and 


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body atrophy sets in. Pride and ambition cut the 
invisible channels that connect soul and body with 
the great river of life. The blood then loses its 
elixir and the flesh its glow of health; decay of 
skin and extremities follows and the man becomes 
a leper. 

The only remedy for the starved body is the re- 
linquishment by the will of its haughty assumption 
of dominion. No new life can flow in until the 
will unclamps its aflSrmations of supremacy. All men 
and women belong to the Naaman family, and no 
one is wholly exempt from the limitations of per- 
sonal will until he has said with Jesus Christ meek- 
ness, "Not my will, but thine, be done,” 

Intuition (the little feminine Israelite) points the 
way to the representative of Jehovah who dwells 
in Samaria. Personal will loves to make display of 
worldly possessions and goes to the simple, un- 
pretentious Elisha with a great retinue of servants, 
horses, chariots, besides presents of silver, gold, 
and rich raiment. He expects the prophet to call 
upon his God, wave his hands over the place, and 
make a great display in the healing. But the gentle 
prophet tells him in his simple way to bathe in the 
Jordan seven times. Naaman is wroth at being told 
to do so slight a thing when he had come so far 
at such a great outlay. He had expected the prophet 
to recognize his exalted position and give him 
special attention. To do such a puerile thing as to 
bathe in an insignificant stream like the Jordan 
filled him with indignation. 


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Teachers of Truth ate constantly having to meet 
this egotism of the personal will in their students. 
The intellectual method of gaining knowledge is 
so ponderous: so many books have to be studied 
and so many things memorized that the simple 
methods of Truth are considered childish. In mod- 
ern medical practice a paralytic might be dosed, 
serumed, X-rayed, and what not. Jesus healed such 
i a case by simply saying, "Son, be of good cheer; 
thy sins are forgiven." 

Jesus said He accomplished this through the faith 
of those who brought the sick to Him. There must 
; be faith action before the forces that restore the 
; life to the organism can be set in operation. The 
laborious methods of the medical profession are all 
; for the purpose of stimulating the healing forces 
of nature. Nature is the servant of mind, and when 
lawful thoughts are enthroned in consciousness, na- 
ture restores the natural harmony existing between 
spirit, soul, and body. When the use of right thoughts 
and words is understood, nature’s work is so easily 
accomplished that the intellectual man is nonplused 
and shakes his head with incredulity; or he goes 
away like Naaman, wroth at the seemingly crude 
and unheard-of prescription. However Naaman’s 
servants prevailed upon him to give Elisha’s remedy 
a trial, and when he had bathed in the Jordan seven 
times, "his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a 
little child, and he Was clean.” 

I The first step in all spiritual healing is faith, and 
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of inteilect is dominant there is little opportimity 
for the subconscious stream of life to do its cleans- 
ing work. The proud Naaman must first be humbled 
before he can be healed, and the proud flesh be 
taken out of his heart before the proud flesh can 
be cured in his body. 

Elisha apparently took no part in the healing, 
simply directing Naaman to bathe in the Jordan 
seven times. But there was a deep undercurrent of 
Spirit power at work in Elisha. He represented the 
higher self of the Naaman consciousness, which 
’had been quickened. Jesus referred to this incident 
in Luke 4:27: “There were many lepers in Israel in 
the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them 
• was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” 

Elisha told Naaman to bathe in the Jordan seven 
times. Seven is a cardinal numeral and in ancient 
times was regarded as having mystical significance, 
that is, as symbolizing perfection, besides being 
loosely used for any indefinite considerable number, 
much as twenty or a hundred is used now. Peter used 
it in this sense when he said, “How oft shall my 
brother sin against me, and I forgive him ? until seven 
times Jesus replied, “Until seventy times seven.” 

Seven is so universally used as a mystical number 
that there must be some reason for this in the fun- 
damental arrangement of the natural world. In 
Solomon’s Temple was the seven-branched candle- 
stick. We know that this Temple represented the 
body of man and that the seven lights were symbols 
of seven centers in the organism, through which in- 


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teliigence is expressed. Everybody knows five of 
these centers; seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, 
touch. There are two in addition to these, which 
we may call intuition and telepathy. The solar 
plexus is the organism of intuition and the brain the 
organ of telepathy. 

All these centers of light have been dimmed 
by sin. Hence sin has also been given a sevenfold 
classification, viz., pride, anger, lust, covetousness, 
envy, gluttony, sloth. The great purifying river of 
life must wash away these sins and their leprosy in 
the body. To bring this to pass man must deny in 
sevenfold measure the darkness of error that ob- 
scures the inner light and life. These seven wash- 
ings are to be repeated until the whole body is clean. 

The eye represents the discerning capacity of the 
mind. 

My eyes are no longer darkened by thotights of 
deception, concealment, or lust. The cleansing 
life and light of Spirit makes pure afid clean 
I these eyes, and through all-seeing Mind I have 
spiritual vision. 

The ear represents the receptive capacity of the 
mind. 

■ My ears are no longer stopped by the sensitive- 
\ness and will full ness of the little self. I am no 
Xlonger bound by personality. 1 now bathe in 
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less Spirit. 1 hear the voice of Truth only and 
rejoice. 

The nose represents the initiative capacity of the 
mind. 

The cleansing life of Spirit frees my mind of all 
thoughts of fear, timidity, and incapacity. 1 am 
bold, free, courageous Spirit, and I can do all 
things through Christ. 

The tongue represents the judging capacity of the 
mind. 

Sense appetite no longer clogs the clear discern- 
ment of my spiritual judgmefit. The cleansing 
life of Spirit quickens and cleanses my taste, and 
I eat and drink only what my body requires 
under divine law. 

Feeling represents the loving capacity of the 
mind. 

1 am no longer in bondage to the thought that 
sensation is in matter. The cleansing life of 
Spirit dissolves all fleshly lust for seme pleasure. 

I am Spirit, and I desire the clean, pure cur- 
rents of life to flow through every part of my 
body, so that all may be made clean. 

Intuition is the natural knov/ing capacity of the 
mind. 

i The cleansing life of Spirit purifies my heart, 

] and 1 trust the still small voice” within my soul. 


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Telepathy is thought interchange. 

Hhe cleansing life of Spirit clears my mind of 
ignoraf2ce and materiality, and I see the activity 
of ideas and understand their import inde- 
pendently of human language. As God gave 
Daniel ^'knowledge and skill in all learning and 
wisdofrt: and . . . understanding in all visions 
and dreams so Me gives me and all His chil- 
dren the original ideas of His great mind to 
use as we will. 



Prayer and Faith 


P RAYER is a science susceptible of being reduced 
to rules that prove it to be based upon demon- 
strable laws. The intellectual school of scien- 
tists will not accept our claim of science for prayer, 
because we operate in a field that they have not 
investigated. However "there are more things in 
heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt of" in their 
philosophy. 

We who are testing out the laws of prayer can- 
not say with assurance that we have discovered and 
applied all of them so clearly that we can teach 
them to the multitude. The laws of prayer require 
a spiritually developed mind to give them full ex- 
pression; hence not all persons are at once com- 
petent to cover the whole range of mental and 
spiritual activity requisite to the unfailing demon- 
stration of prayer. Jesus taught that whatever we 
ask in prayer, believing, we shall receive. 

So right at the beginning of our inquiry into sci- 
entific prayer we find a very vital condition em- 
phasized and demonstrated by Jesus in His most 
effective prayers, and that is faith. We must have 
faith, though it be merely of mustard-seed size, 
before we can approach the fulfillment of the law 
of prayer. 

Faith is the most mysterious of the spiritual fac- 

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ulties and has so far eluded the descriptive powers 
of man. Many attempts have been made to describe 
faith but with indifferent success. All spiritual meta- 
physicians agree that faith is an apprehension by 
man of a mind power that connects matter and 
spirit. Faith handles ideas with a facility similar to 
that with which we handle pumpkin seeds. We plant 
the little seeds in good soil and watch them grow in 
a few months into large pumpkins. This is as great 
a miracle as any that Jesus performed, the differ- 
ence being that it takes time and an adjustment 
of material instead of spiritual conditions. 

But the scientific operation of the law of mani- 
festation is just as mysterious in the one case as in 
the other. However we find that we can improve 
the conditions conducive to growth in the natural 
world, and it is good logic to assume that we can 
improve on the ancient practices of prayer. Primi- 
tive man had a sense of separation from his God. 
He believed that through storm, lightning, thunder, 
and earthquake his God was taking vengeance on 
him for his misdeeds, and he prayed to be saved. 
Then the most common form of prayer was the 
prayer for favors and for vengeance on one’s ene- 
mies. This form of prayer was popular among the 
Israelites, as evidenced by their literature: 

"Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies.” 

"Hide me under the shadow of thy wings, 

From the wicked that oppress me, 

My deadly enemies, that compass me about.” 

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Although we have progressed somewhat in our 
attitude toward God the great majority of Chris- 
tians are still begging a faraway God for favors. 

What we ail need is a better understanding of the 
principles at the very foundation of Being, of the 
spiritual character of God, and especially of the 
omnipresence of the spiritual principles. Then we 
need to understand our relation to these spiritual 
principles and what we have to do to make them 
operative in our mind and aflfairs, 

; We must know first that prayer is cumulative; 
that the more we pray the more we accumulate of 
the powerful spiritual energy which transforms in- 
visible ideas into visible things. Paul said, "Pray with- 
out ceasing.” Do not supplicate and beg God to give 
you what you need, but realize, affirm, and absolutely 
know that your supreme mind is functioning right 
now in God-Mind itself and that your thought sub- 
stance and the spiritual substance of the Most High 
are amalgamated and blended into one perfect whole 
that is now being made manifest in the very thing 
you are asking for. 

This is the modern technique of prayer, and it is 
being demonstrated by quite a few devout souls in 
this modern mechanical world. It is not emotional, 
nor does its devotees expect miracles; on the contrary, 
they apply the law of righteous thinking to a prob- 
lem that has always been treated as outside the realm 
of exact science. 

Every science under the sun has progressed and 
developed out of its early state of crudeness except 

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the science of the true character of God and of our 
relation to Him. Now the time has come for us 
to improve our methods of worship and reduce 
them to scientific mind laws. When we fully realize 
that God is a great mind in which "we live, and 
move, and have our being," we shall begin to use 
our mind in consonance with the Mind omnipresent. 
Then a supreme harmony will be ours, and prayer 
will become a divine soliloquy. As the entrancing 
music of the modern world has been developed from 
the primitive shepherd’s playing his flute to his mate 
and then falling in love with his own music, so we 
shall unfold innate abilities of communion with 
God and finally discover the divine harmony. 

With this understanding then of the true char- 
acter of prayer, let us give ourselves to prayer. 

In its spiritual character our mind blends with 
Divine Mind as the mist blends with the cloud. 
Both are composed of the same elements and they 
unite without friction if left to their natural afiinity. 
But give "the mist" the power and ability of sepa- 
ration and we have conditions that involve divisions 
beyond enumeration. Man came out of God, is of 
tlie same mind elements, and exists within the mind 
of God always. Yet by thinking that he is separate 
from omnipresent Spirit he has set up a mental state 
of apartness from his source and he dwells in ig- 
norance of that which is nearer to him than hands 
and feet. A few moments of thought daily directed 
toward God in acknowledgment of His presence 
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always with us tliat responds to our thought when 
we direct our attention to it Sometimes we auto- 
matically make this high contact when our mind is 
exalted by transcendent sights or sounds. The emi- 
nent astronomer Kepler had this experience when, 
viewing the expanse and majesty o£ the universe o£ 
stars, he inspirationally exclaimed, "O God, I am 
thinking Thy thoughts after Thee.” 

Much is heard about giving ourselves to service 
to the world, but how important is the self that we 
are offering ? If we have found our real self the offer 
will be worth while, but if we are offering person- 
ality alone we shall never set the world afire. 

Paul was a great example of an indefatigable 
minister. We can hardly conceive the hardships he 
endured. He enumerates a few of them in II Corin- 
thians 11:24-28: "Of the Jews five times received 
I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with 
rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, 
a night and a day have I been in the deep; in jour- 
neyings often, />? perils of rivers, perils of rob- 
bers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from 
the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the 
wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among 
false brethren, in labor and travail, in watchings 
often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in 
cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are 
without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, 
anxiety for all the churches.” 

Paul was a tentmaker. He went from house to 
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in a third-story room for several hours. About mid- 
night a young man named Eutychus was overcome 
by sleep and fell from a window to the ground and 
was taken up dead. Paul went down and resurrected 
him, then went back to his preaching and kept it up 
until daybreak. A sermon twelve hours long would 
appall some ministers and all congregations, but 
not Paul. 

"It matters not how strait the gate, 

How charged with punishment the scroll, ' 
I am the master of my fate: 

I am the captain of my soul.” 

To Timothy Paul recommends, "Exercise thyself 
unto godliness.” The word "exercise” is derived 
from a Greek word having the root meaning of 
"gymnastics.” That is, train your mind to think 
about God as a force that can be incorporated into 
your mind as you incorporate strength into your 
body. If your mind is weak and flabby, practice 
thinking about God as strong and stable. This will 
lift your mind out of its depression and connect you 
with a never-failing source of stability and confi- 
dence. Thus in order of their importance and neces- 
sity take all the attributes of God, such as life, love, 
power, wisdom, and incorporate them into the mus- 
cles of your mind by exercise. 

We are very apt to forget that the mind of man 
develops like his muscles, by exercise. The minister 
who thinks his education is complete when he leaves 
the theological seminary never becomes a great 



PRAYEK AJNU jp/Uirx 


teacher of men. So the Christian who thinks he is 
saved when he has been “converted” wiil find that 
his salvation has just begun. Conversion and “change 
of heart” are real experiences, as anyone who has 
passed through them will testify, but they are merely 
introductory to the new life in Christ. When a per- 
son arrives at a certain exalted consciousness through 
the exercise of his mind in thinking about God and 
His laws, he is lifted above the thoughts of the 
world into a heavenly realm. This is the beginning 
of his entry into the kingdom of the heavens, which 
was the text of many of Jesus’ discourses. When a 
man attains this high place in consciousness he is 
baptized by the Spirit; that is, his mind and even his 
body are suffused with spiritual essences, and he 
begins the process of becoming a new creature in 
Christ Jesus. Skeptics and the inexperienced view the 
changes in one’s life produced by conversion as 
merely an emotional upheaval that will eventually 
pass away and leave the subject as he was before. 
No one is ever left exactly as he was before the 
experience. An effect has been produced on the 
soul structure that will never be wholly obliterated, 
but it may remain merely a temporary impression 
unless it is developed by exercise. This develop- 
ment cannot be accomplished by bodily exercise 
either. As Paul wisely says, “bodily exercise is prof- 
itable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all 
things.” 


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H ealing by the power of the word did not 
originate with Jesus of Nazareth, although 
it is from Him that we get our modern in- 
: spiration. In every age where man has realized the 
perfection of the original essence of Being and has 
: spoken forth that realization, the result has been a 
restoration of things to their inherent harmony and 
order. 

Whoever realizes that God is the underlying cre- 
ative perfection and that man is His mouthpiece 
has laid the foundation for performing miracles of 
healing through the power of the word. But in 
order to do the miracles he must speak the word 
that he knows to be true. 

Thousands in every age have caught sight of the 
truth of God’s perfect being, but they have not 
been sure enough of their ground to go forth and 
proclaim it to a waiting world. Jesus of Nazareth 
was counted the Saviour of mankind because He 
freely proclaimed the truth about God and man. He 
not only proclaimed it, but He had faith in the 
power of His word to redeem men from the mental 
lethargy into which they had fallen. 

"And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in 
their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the 
kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and ail 

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manner of sickness among the people.” The method 
of Jesus’ healing has always been a theme that many 
have learnedly discussed and written about. The 
theories have been numerous, but they have nearly 
always been theories. The claim that He was the 
only Son of God, begotten in a certain manner to do 
a miraculous work, is also a theory to him who has 
not a clear understanding of what constitutes a son 
of God; hence it would be futile to discuss the things 
of Spirit with one who has not been quickened by 
Spirit. 

Whatever these various theories of Jesus’ re- 
markable healing power may be, none disputes one 
point*. He used words as the vehicle of the healing 
potency. He always spoke to the patient ’*as one 
having authority.” He had a certain assurance, an 
inner conviction, that He was speaking the truth 
when He said, ”Thou art made whole”; and the 
result of His understanding carried conviction to 
the mind of the patient and opened the way for the 
"virtue” that went forth from the speaker. Not- 
withstanding this very apparent use of words by 
Jesus there has been a failure on the part of His 
followers to gtasp their vitally important of6ce in 
demonstrations. There has always been a belief in 
the religious world that there was somewhere a 
lost word that when found and spoken would set 
all things right. The Jews say this lost word is veiled 
in the name "Yahveh" and that its correct pronun- 
ciation is no longer known to men. They claim it 
was once known to their priesthood, and when it 

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was used all the powers of God were manifest and 
mighty works were accomplished by it in brief mo- 
ments of time. 

All are familiar with the "God said” of Genesis 
in connection with the creation of the heavens 
and the earth. 

Here at the very beginning the word is the cre- 
ative agent, and John, personifying it, corroborates 
this. He says that in the beginning "the Word was 
with God” that it was God, and that all things 
were made by it, and without it was not anything 
made that has been made. The term that John used 
and that is translated "Word” in the King James 
New Testament has a much deeper significance 
than is usually given to it by Bible readers. It 
has been assumed by the church that "the Word” 
meant the personal Jesus Christ, and it has been so 
accepted. 

The most thorough Greek scholars and all careful 
and honest Scripture authorities tell us that the 
Greek term /ogos has no equivalent in the English 
language; that it is untranslatable and should have 
stood in its original form instead of the accepted 
translation, "the Word.” 

Even in Greek the term /ogos has an inner mean- 
ing that only those of spiritual discernment can 
comprehend. Externally it covers both the spoken 
word and the underlying reason or valid premise; 
both being so intimately connected as to be one. This 
John conveys in saying that "the Word was with 
God, and the Word was God.” Here is implied a 

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distinction in office but a unity in purpose. With 
the early Fathers of the Greek Church the divine 
Logos had a peculiar significance which only those 
who had delved into the innermost of existence 
could comprehend. 

Philo made the divine Logos the embodiment of 
all divine powers and ideas. He distinguished be- 
tween the Logos inherent in God, corresponding to 
reason in man, and the Logos emanating from God, 
corresponding to the spoken word that reveals the 
thought. The former contains the ideal world; the 
latter is the first-begotten Son of God, the image of 
God, the Creator, the preserver, the giver of life 
and light, the mediator between God and the world. 
It is claimed that Philo wavered between a personal 
and an impersonal conception of the Logos, but 
leaned more to the impersonal. 

Philip Schaff, speaking of the Logos, says: 

“Saint John uses Logos (translated Word) four 
times as a designation of the divine, pre-existent 
person of Christ, through whom the world was 
made, and who became incarnate for our salvation 
(John 1:1-14; I John 1:1; 5:7, A. V.; Rev. 19:13). 
Philo may possibly have suggested the use of the 
term (although there is no evidence that John read 
a single line of Philo) ; but the idea was derived 
from the teaching of Christ, and from the Old 
Testament, which makes a distinction between the 
hidden and the revealed Being of God. There is 
an inherent propriety in this usage in the Greek 
language, where Logos is masculine and has the 

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double meauing o£ thought and speech. Christ as 
to His divine nature bears the same relation to 
God as the word bears to the idea. The word gives 
shape and form to the idea, and reveals it to the 
without. The word is thought expressed; thought is 
the inward word. We cannot speak without the 
faculty of reason, nor think without words, whether 
"uttered or not. The Christ-Logos is the Revealer and 
Interpreter of the Hidden Being of God, the utter- 
ance, the reflection, the visible image of God, and 
the organ of all His manifestations to the world 
(John 1:18; Comp. Matt 11:27). The Logos was 
one in nature or essence with God, yet personally 
distinct from Him, and in closest communion with 
Him.” 

In plain, everyday language, we would say tliat 
Being, the original fount, is an impersonal principle; 
but in its work of creation it puts forth the idea that 
contains all ideas: the Logos, the Christ, the Son 
of God, spiritual man. This idea is the creative 
; power, the concrete consciousness formulated by 
universal Principle. 

It is written of God: "Thou ... art of purer 
eyes than to behold evil.” "Are not two sparrows 
sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall 
on the ground without your Father.” These pas- 
sages seem paradoxical. When we understand that 
in the first passage Principle is referred to, and in 
the second the Logos or creative Father of Jesus, 
then ail is clear. Jesus always called the divine Logos 
"Father.” He never referred to it as an abstraction 


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but always as a being having intense love and com- 
passion for all creation. 

So He will become to each one who makes the 
conscious connection with Him, We shall realize 
that Being is not only principle so far as its inherent 
and undeviating laws are concerned, but also person 
so far as its relation to each one of us is concerned; 
that we as individuals do actually become the focus 
of universal Spirit, of the all-pervading and all-wise 
Logos, and that through us the universe is formed. 

“And then shall they see the Son of man coming 
in clouds with great power and glory.” Each one of 
us is a son of man, and our glory and power is in the 
keeping of the divine Logos. 

We come into this power and glorify God just to 
the extent that we recognize and use the Logos. 
Jesus of Nazareth recognized and used it in its 
fullest sense. To Him it was not only an all-pervad- 
ing principle of goodness and power but it was very 
much more; it was a near and dear Father, a Father 
whose interest in His children is greater than that 
of any earthly parent. 

“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good 
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your 
Father who is in heaven give good things to them 
that ask him?” 

We may make little out of the Logos and live in 
the shadow of its glory, or we may make much out 
of it and live in the sunshine of that glory. Some 
ask sparingly and receive in like measure; others 
ask largely and receive largely. 

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The Logos is the preserver and transmitter o£ the 
original spiritual ideas and essences o£ God, It is 
the SListainer upon which the universe rests, and all 
its creations are spiritually sequential, that is, logical. 
We are dependent upon it for every breath we draw. 
Its substance and intelligence are at the beck and 
call of prince and peasant alike, and in this sense 
it becomes the servant o£ all. All mold it into 
consciousness in the one and only way — through 
thought. Whatever you think about life or sub- 
stance, that it becomes to you. 

If you think the Logos will heal the sick through 
the power of your magnetic hand, you will do your 
healing in that way. If you think it will heal tlirough 
your silent or spoken word, it will act accordingly. 
It will work for the ignorant and the wise, the 
wicked and the good, the poor and the rich. It is 
yours to use in whatsoever way you will. However 
the permanent results you get will be proportioned 
to your understanding of its whole nature. To grow 
in its grace and be glorified in the ineffable glory of 
the everlasting God you must know who it is you 
are dealing with. 

Herein many are falling short in our day. They 
have been taught the manipulation of the Logos in 
its healing aspect and they are using it as a new 
therapeutic agent. To them it is a cold abstraction, 
a principle having intelligence and substance with- 
out consciousness. These qualities they handle as 
does the potter his clay. Instead of striving to attain 
that loving relation to the Father which should 


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exist between parent and child, they are virtually 
introducing into their business world a new factor 
for the attainment of selfish ends. Do not let the icy 
hand of such a science grasp yours. Refuse to see the 
Father as anything less than the all-compassionate 
One who is interested in every act of your life, every 
thought you think; who has numbered even the hairs 
of your head. This is our God, the Most High Good, 
which dwells in our heart and soul and flames up 
into our mind with all the power of cleansing, heal- 
ing, and uplifting. To this dear Father nothing is 
small, nothing is great. He does not ignore His 
creation; He does not stand afar off and view with 
the cold, critical eye of a connoisseur. His heart 
throbs with compassion; He sheds upon us the holy 
peace of His presence in the turmoil of sense, and 
we joyously exclaim, “Though all else fail me, in 
Thee I find rest.” 

Yet we must attain the full stature of the God- 
man. We must ultimately understand that the Father 
cannot be circumscribed by any human idea of Him 
or of what He should do for us. We must know 
that there is only good and that the word of good is 
the only permanently healing word. So long as we 
believe that the Father might heal at one time and 
not at another, that He might be induced to give 
us His healing Spirit under certain circumstances and 
not under others, we are misjudging His nature. 
If there is ever any limit to the healing power of 
the word, it is of our own manufacture. 

The healing word is not a special creation to meet 


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an emergenqr. It is not a patent medicine prepared 
to cure specific diseases. The idea that it is a healing 
word at all originates in our limited notion that 
there is something that needs healing. 

God is the supreme perfection; the Word is like 
unto that perfection. All its creations are perfect. 
It takes cognhance of the perfect only. When we 
realize this perfection and speak the words of Truth 
from that plane of understanding, the Word goes 
forth and establishes that which is. It does not heal 
anything — ^in its perfection there is nothing to heal. 
Its office is to behold the perfection of its Being; 
and as we do the works of the Father, we behold 
and restore that which is and always was perfect. 

Thus he who realizes most thoroughly that God is 
the supreme perfection and that in Him can be no 
imperfection, and speaks forth that realization witli 
conviction, will cause all things to arrange them- 
selves in divine order. 

This is being daily and hourly demonstrated by 
the faithful all over the land, thus proving true the 
nature of the Logos or Word of God. The meaning 
of the word logos is speech based upon reason. If 
the reasonable premise that God is the omnipresent 
God is well grounded in you, you cannot speak 
anything but healing and uplifting words. Your 
words must be for the healing of the nations, be- 
cause they are true words flowing forth from a 
source in which Truth has no opposite. 

If you believe that both good and evil conditions 
can be brought forth from this divine Logos, that 



IHE HEALING WORD 


both sweet and bitter waters can flow forth from 
tiie same spring, then your healing will be mixed. 
The spring is pure, and by letting your mind be an 
open way for its outpouring, you permit it to remain 
in its original purity and to cleanse all in whom 
you quicken it. If however you stop the flow here 
and there by an idea of limitation, by an idea of im- 
perfection in the fount or in him upon whom the 
fount is being poured, you cut off its free currents 
to that extent. 

Do not construe this to mean that you can pol- 
lute the stream by your thinking. This cannot be 
done; you simply refuse to let its purity come forth in 
its fullness. Like the lens that refracts the sunlight, 
you receive some rays that you do not throw upon the 
screen. The white light of Spirit is poured upon you,; 
and your idea of limitation in a given direction 
makes you opaque to some of its colors. \ 

You are nothing less than a child of God, and to 
you is intrusted the creative power. When you realize 
this you can go forth forgiving men their sins as you 
have forgiven your own. 

The word of God is spoken through the Son of 
man. You are a son of man, and it is your duty to 
be about your Father’s business, healing the sick, 
casting out demons, raising the dead, forgiving the 
sinful, and spreading the gospel of a living God. 

But the "word is very nigh unto thee, in thy 
mouth.” Speak it forth and demonstrate, as did 
Jesus, that "the Son of man hath authority on earth 
to forgive sins.” What is sin? Is it anything other 

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than an erroneous way of attaining happiness? God 
is happy, and it is a state natural to us all or we 
would not strive for it. There must also be a way to 
reach it. If we have not reached it by the way we 
have followed, we have but to turn about and seek 
another way. Repenting is turning about, letting go 
of the sense way. As soon as we let go and recog- 
nize that the way of Spirit is the way of pleasant- 
ness, we have been forgiven our sins. The mental 
attitude has invited the word of God, and it flows 
forth into our consciousness and erases the erroneous 
concepts. 

Anyone can speak true words and thus be the 
agent of God in forgiving sin. The little child may 
: do it; the ignorant disciple may do it. The power 
does not inhere in the individual; the cleansing is 
through the word. "Already ye are clean because 
; of the word which I have spoken unto you.” 

• This living Word of God is a spiritual principle. 
; It is omnipresent, like the air we breathe. 

One small grain of it is more powerful than many 
tons of dynamite. It is the "assurance of things 
hoped for” that will remove mountains. It is very 
nigh unto you, even "in thy mouth,” as a wise one 
said. Its premise is that God is good and tliat His 
; offspring is like unto Him. You have only to recog- 
; nize this premise in all that you think and do and 
then speak it forth to get the results promised. There 
is no respect of persons in God; you are as near the 
Father as Jesus was if you recognize the principle 
and speak the tme word always. 

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PRAYER TREATMENTS 


I no longer accuse myself and 
others of sin and evil. Forgiving, 
I am forgiven and healed. 

I daily praise the invisible good 
that is bringing the ships of pros- 
perity to my harbor. 




HOW PRAYER HEALING IS DONE 


F rom a study of the foregoing lessons, you 
should be convinced that man and the universe 
are under the creative direction of a supreme 
being, name it what you will, and that man needs 
but to conform to the laws of creative Mind in order I 
to be healthy, happy, and wise. It logically occurs 
to you that all healing methods, whether applied to 
self or to others, consists in establishing the unity 
of the individual and the universal consciousness. 

No man heals himself or another; the supreme 
Mind does the work. “The Father abiding in me 
does his works,” said Jesus. This is the testimony 
of all the truly wise. 

The first move in all healing is a recognition on 
the part of the healer and on the part of the patient 
that God is present as an all-powerful mind, equal 
to the healing of every disease, no matter how bad 
it may appear. “With God all things are possible.” I 

The best way to establish unity with the Father- | 

Mind is by prayer. “God is Spirit,” and He has a [ 
kingdom or ruling center in every soul. Do not look | 
up or out for God, but “pray to thy Father who is 
in secret [silently within your own soul}, and thy 
Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.” 


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Many healers use the Lord’s Prayer at the beginning 
of every treatment. Talk to the Father as if He were 
an entity present within you. He is visible to your 
soul, and when you have attained the particular 
inner confidence called faith, you will realize His 
presence as clearly as you realize visible things. 
When you have stilled the outer senses and have 
become quiet, you are in the mental realm where 
thoughts are obedient to the Word. Error thoughts 
must be told to go, and true thoughts must be called 
■ to take their proper place. 

Mental causes are so complex that it is impossible 
to point out in all cases the specific thought that 
causes a certain disease; but twelve fundamental 
mind activities lie at the base of all existence, and 
when any one of these is contacted, all the others 
respond. 

Nearly all sick people lack vital force, hence the 
life treatment is good for all. Hate, anger, jealousy, 
malice, and the like are almost universal in human 
consciousness, and a treatment for love will prove 
a healing balm for all. 

• Fear of poverty burdens most people, and the 
, prosperity treatment will be effective. Do not be 
; afraid to use the statements in healing as a whole 
or in part; they will always help and never hurt 
anyone. Remember that the object of all treatment 
!• is to raise the mind to the Christ consciousness, 
; through which all true healing is accomplished. 

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SAMPLE PRAYER TREATMENTS 

Fear, anxiety, worry, dread, and suspense — these 
thoughts cause the mind to become tense, thus shut- 
ting out the great helper, the Spirit o£ truth. Say 
silently: 

I am now free from fear, anxiety, worry, dread, 
and suspense. 1 have faith in Hhy Holy Spirit, 

\ and I trust Thee to protect me, to provide for 
me, and to bring all my affairs into divine order. 

Nervousness 

The mind sends its messages along the nerves; 
the nerves, forming a network of communication 
with the brain, get into a chronic crosscurrented 
condition from the presence of repeated anxious, 
worried, fearful thoughts, and the many forms of 
nervousness result. This idea of nervousness must 
be specifically denied and the truth affirmed. Say 
silently: 

I I am not subject to any kind of nervousness. M.y 
\ nerves are harmonized, peaceful, and poised in 
■ Spirit and in Truth. 

Note: Deny the mental cause first; then the phys- 
ical appearance. Nervousness is produced by worry, 
anxiety, and the like. These mental conditions 
should be healed first; then the secondary state 
which they have produced in the body must be 
denied and dissolved, and the perfect condition 
affirmed. 

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Colds, Grippe, and the Influenzas 
Affirm: 

Spirit is not subject to heut or cold. 1 am Spirit. 
I am the positive force of Being, and 1 put out 
of my consciousness all negative thoughts. I do 
not believe in the thing called a cold, nor do 
I admit for a moment that it has any power over 
me. I am Spirit, free-flowing life, and my cir- 
culation is equalized in God. 

Stomach Troubles 

Prayer: 

My understaftding is established in Spirit. I 
know the relation between mind and body, be- 
tween thought and substance. I agree with what 
1 eat, and what I eat agrees with me. I am at 
peace with all men and all things. 1 do not re- 
sist or antagonize anybody or anything. My 
stomach is strong, wise, and energetic, and 1 
always think and speak of it as in every way 
capable of doing the work given it to do. 1 do 
not impose upon my stomach by overloading it. 
I am guided by divine wisdom in eating and 
drinking, and I follow its dictates instead of the 
sense appetites. 1 am no longer anxious about 
tvhat l shall eat or what 1 shall drink. / am not 
hurried or worried, but after each meal I rest 
from all the cares of life, and I give my stomach 
opportunity to do its perfect work under the 
divine law. 


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All Liver Troubles 
Prayer: 

I am not misjudged, nor do I misjudge others. I 
do not criticize or condemn. I do not hold bitter, 
revengeful thoughts against others. 1 do not 
think that 1 have been unjustly treated. God- 
Mind is my supreme arbiter, and I rest all 
judgment in the divine law of justice. The swift 
energy of Spirit now penetrates and permeates 
every atom of my liver, and it is free to do its 
perfect work. 

Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary 
Disorders 

Prayer: 

God is the strength of my life. I do not believe 
in exhaustion of strength. Strength is always 
present in -supreme completeness, and I am eter- 
nally strong. Spirit is the strength of my loins, 
and my back is free from all thought of burdens. 
My life is divinely ordered, and I am not afraid 
of weakness, old age, or death. All the issues of 
my life are from God, and He is a well of living 
water within me. 

Lustful passions no longer separate me from the 
pure, spiritual life. My life is lifted up by the 
Christ mind, and I am resurrected from the 
dead. My life is hid with Christ in God. 

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TEACH US TO PRAY 


All Throat Affecteons 

Prayer: 

All power is given to me, in heaven ( mind ) and 
in earth (body). Dominion, control, and mas- 
tery are mine by diving right, and I refuse to 
believe in failure or discouragement. 

1 am free, and the inspiration of Spirit is poured 
into my soul. I am quickened by Spirit, and the 
flesh is obedient. 1 rejoice and am glad because 
the joy of Christ is mine. 1 am filled with Spirit 
energy, and every cell in my organism is alight 
with God. I am the resurrection and the life. 

SIX-DAY PRAYER TREATMENTS 

It is found that the mind establishes a permanent 
consciousness through six steps or stages, called in 
Genesis "days.” 

First, the mind perceives and affirms Truth to be 
a universal principle. Secondly, faith in the working 
power of Truth is born in consciousness. Thirdly, 
Truth takes definite form in mind. Fourthly, the will 
carries Truth into acts. Fifthly, discrimination is 
quickened and the diffierence between Truth and 
error is discerned. Sixthly, every thought and word 
is expressed in harmony with Truth. 

The seventh "day” represents a peaceful confi- 
dence and rest in the fulfillment of the divine law. 

By the use of these denials and affirmations for 
one week a new and more orderly basis of thought 

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is established in mind, and the whole man is har- 
moni2ed and vitalized. This process often .heals 
obstinate cases, and the six-day course is recom- 
mended in conjunction with the special prayers. 

Make your denials as if you were gently sweeping 
away cobwebs, and make your affirmations in a 
strong, bold, vehement, positive attitude of mind. 

Each day’s treatment, and the whole course of 
treatments if necessary, is to be repeated over and 
over until it manifests its living presence and potenq?’ 
in consciousness. 

If you desire to help a patient who will not try 
or who cannot himself successfully bring his mind 
into harmonious relations with Principle, think of 
this person when you hold the daily thought, and 
Spirit will cause your word to be manifested both 
in you and in him. 

Invocation 

To precede each day’s treatment 

I acknowledge Thy presence and power, 0 
blessed Spirit; in Thy divine wisdom now erase 
my mortal limitations, and from Thy pure sub- 
stance of love bring into manifestation my 
world, according to Thy perfect law. 

Monday 

Deny: 

1 am no longer f oolish or ignorant, and the fool- 

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ishness and the ignorance of ancestry can no 
longer he visited upon me. 

1 am free from the foolishness and the ignorance 
of the race and of those with whom I associate. 
The foolishness and the ignorance that may have 
been treasured up by my own understanding are 
now erased. 

Affirm: 

I am wise with the wisdom of infinite Mind, 
and 1 have knowledge of all things. 1 know that 
I am pure intelligence, and 1 hereby claim my 
divine right to light, life, and liberty in all 
goodness, wisdom, love, and purity. Let the light 
of wisdom appear and the ignorance of human 
thought vanish. 

Tuesday 

Deny: 

I deny the belief that I have inherited disease, 
sicknesSj ignorance, or any mental limitations 
whatsoever. I deny all belief in evil; for God 
made all that really is and pronounced it good. 
Therefore no such deception as belief in evil 
can darken my clear understanding of Truth. 
Those with whom I associate can no longer de- 
ceive me with their words of consideration and 
sympathy. 1 can no longer deceive myself with 
such weakness. 

Perish from my world these silly beliefs of 

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darkened ignorance. I am now free from them 
all, and by my powerful word I hereby destroy 
them wholly. 

Affirm: 

: God^s life is my life, and 1 vibrate with harmony 
and wholeness. 1 am free with the knowledge 
that all is good; I am therefore perfectly whole 
and well. 

Wednesday 

Deny: 

1 deny the belief that 1 am a child of the flesh 
and must safer for the sins of my forefathers 
^^unto the third and fourth generations^ Perish 
all such ignorant beliefs. 

I deny that I inherited from my ancestors lustful 
passions and sensual appetites. 

I deny the belief that the race can constrain me 
to yield to lustful passions and sensual appetites. 
I deny the belief that those with whom 1 asso- 
ciate can constrain me to yield to lustful passions 
Of sensual appetites. 1 deny my own ignorant 
belief in such erroneous ideas. 

Affirm: 

God is Spirit and 1, the divine image, am Spirit. 
1 am born of God. God is too pure to behold 
iniquity, and I am therefore pure being, without 
a tinge of lust or passion. 

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Thursday 

Deny: 

I deny that the sins and omissions of my an- 
cestors can influence me in any way. Selfishness, 
envy, malice, jealousy, pride, avarice, arrogance, 
cruelty, hypocrisy, ^obstinacy, and revenge are no 
part of my present understanding, and 1 deny 
all such beliefs in the race, in those with whom 
1 associate, and in my own mind. 

Affirm; 

1 am at peace with all mankind. I truly and un- 
selfishly love all men and women. / now ac- 
knowledge the perfect law of justice and equal- 
ity. I know that ^^God is no respecter of per- 
sons,^’ and that every man and woman is my 
equal in the sight of the Father. 

I do love my neighbor as myself, and I will do 
to others as 1 would have them do to me. 

Friday 

Deny: 

I deny that 1 have inherited the consequences of 
fear from my ancestors, or that the race can con- 
strain me to accept its fears. 'The fears of those 
with luhom I associate can no longer hold me in 
sickness or in want, and my own understanding 
is now fully rid of these illusions. 

There is not and cannot hereafter be any fear in 
or about my bold world. 

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Affirm: 

I am brave and bold with the knowledge that 1 
am Spirit and therefore not subject to any op- 
posing power. 

Plenty and prosperity are mine by inheritance 
from God, and by my steady, persistent word 1 
now bring them into manifestation. 

Saturday 

Deny: 

I deny that 1 inherit any belief that in any way 
limits me in health, virtue, intelligence, or 
power to do good. 

Those with whom 1 associate can no longer 
make me believe that 1 am a poor worm of the 
dust. The race belief that nature dominates 
man no longer holds me in bondage, and I am 
now free from every belief that might in any 
way interfere with my perfect expression of 
health, wealth, peace, prosperity, and perfection 
in every department of life. 

1 now, in the sight of Almighty God, unfor- 
mulate and destroy by my all-powerful word 
every foolish and ignorant assumption that 
might impede my march to perfection. My word 
is the measure of my power. I have spoken, and 
it shall be so. 

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Affirm: 

I am unlimited in my power, and I have increas- 
ing health, strength, life, love, wisdom, bold- 
ness, freedom, charity, and meekness now and 
forever. 

1 am now in harmony with the Father and 
stronger than any mortal law. I know my birth- 
right in pure Being, and 1 boldly assert my per- 
fect freedom. In this knowledge I am enduring, 
pure, peaceful, and happy. 

1 am dignified and definite yet meek and lowly 
in all that I think and do. 

1 am one with and I now fully manifest vig- 
orous life, wisdom, and spiritual understanding. 

1 am one with and 1 now fully manifest love, 
charity, justice, kindness, and generosity. 

I am one with and I now fully manifest infinite 
goodness and mercy. 

Peace flows like a river through my mind, and 1 
thank thee, O God, that I am one with Thee! 

Sunday 

still, and know that I am God!* 


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QUESTIONS 

FOR 

TEACH US TO PRAY 

I By Charles and Cora Vtllmore 

The God to Whom We Tray 

I 1. How is the spiritual character built? 

I 2. Explain *1 go to prepare a place for you.” 

I 3. How are we born anew through Christ? 

4. How does man awaken the divine nature 
within him and bring about his union with God ? 

True Prayer 

1. What is true prayer? 

2. How does one enter the silence ? 

3. How are prayers fulfilled? 

4. Why does God need man as an avenue of 
expression. 

Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence 

1. Why do we ask in the name of Jesus Christ? 
I 2. Does salvation come by accepting Jesus as 

I one’s Saviour? Explain. 

I 3. Did Jesus make individual effort unnecessary ? 

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TEACH US TO PRAY 


4. What is intellectual silence? 

5. What is spiritual silence? 

Healing through the Prayer of Palth 

1. How is faith healing done? 

2. How does man develop a deeper faith? 

3. What is attention ? 

4. What is concentration? 

Prosperity through Prayer 

1. Give your own interpretation of the story of 
Elisha and the oil. 

2. Give the metaphysical interpretation of 
Elisha, the widow, and the oil. 

3. Why is praise so beneficial ? 

4. Why is daily prayer essential ? 

Contacting Spiritual Substance 

1 . What is Spirit substance ? 

2. How does man appropriate and manifest the 
invisible substance? 

3. How do we gain control of Spirit substance? 

4. Why are prosperity demonstrations delayed? 

Joyous Prayer 

1. How can a metaphysician contact the undis- 
covered quantities in space 

2. How is the CJirist consciousness attained? 
What is the result? 


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QUESTIONS 


3. Expiain the ejSfect of joy on the mind, body, 
and affairs. 

4. Why must we pray with a purpose? 

How to Handle the Psychic Forces of 
Consciotisness 

1. What is the only way to handle the psychic 
forces ? 

2. What are the three elements of the soul, and 
what is comprised in each? 

3. What effect does the psydiic realm have on - 
the emotional nature? 

4. What happens to souls who pass on ? 

5. Explain how Spirit gives messages in dreams 
and visions. 

6. How is man being restored to the heavenly 
kingdom ? 

Spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man Master 

1. Is man the equal of God? 

2. How does man develop his innate abilities ? 

3. How did Jesus become a master? 

4. Why is the unfoldment of love so important 
in gaining spiritual mastery? 

Fulfillment 

1. What is the "light of the world"? 

2. How did the cmcifixion of Jesus save us from 
sin, sickness, and death? 


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3. 'W!^hat is the grand fulfillment? 

4. Explain the difierence between "life” and 
''blood.” 

Unfoldment 

1 . What was the evolution of Jesus ? 

2. What is your understanding of the Logos ? 

3. How is the body transformed ? 

4. How do we partake of the Holy Communion ? 

Thought Images 

1. What are thought images? 

2 . How do we pro j ect thought ? 

3. Can man have a perfect character? How? 

4. Are there short cuts into the kingdom of the 
heavens? 

The Spoken Word 

1. Explain the process of creative thought. 

2. How does the soul overcome death? 

3. What is your understanding of the "ether”? 

4. How do we receive a life transfusion? 

Thou Shalt Decree 

1. What is tlie effect of man’s words? 

2. Does an inferiority complex prevent one from 
expressing sonship? 

3. Why do the organs of the body respond to our 
decrees? 

4. Amplify Dr. Alexis Carrel’s statement "The 
only thing that keeps men from living forever is the 
possession of a brain and nervous system.” 

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QUESTIONS 


Be Strong in the Lord 

1. How do we become strong in the Lord? 

2 . What was Jesus’ instruction regarding prayer ? 

3. Name some helps to entering the silence. 

4. Explain the effect of words of praise and 
failure. 

Bace to Face with God 

1. Why should we speak direct to God? 

2. How can we become established in the con- 
sciousness of oneness with God? 

3. Explain the parable of the prodigal son. 

4. Why must we study the life of Jesus Christ ? 

Not Magic hut Law 

1. Where is the "kingdom of God” ? 

2. Was Jesus the only Son of God? Explain. 

3. How do we attain the consciousness of eternal 
life ? 

4. Why should we look to God as our resource ? 

Spiritual Soul Therapy 

1. What is Spirit psychoanalysis? 

2. What determines the character of our soul ? 

3. Explain the effect of praise on the individual. 

4. Does the mental attitude govern spiritual 
demonstration? 

Health and Prosperity 

1. How can Spirit manifest itself? 

2. How is the immortal body formed? 


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TEACH US TO PRAY 


3. Where is the substance of God? 

4. Can we manipulate substance as Jesus did? 
Explain fully. 

Thoughts Are Things 

1 . What are thoughts ? 

2. Compare the "ether” of science with the Gar- 
den of Eden and the "kingdom of the heavens” of 
Jesus. 

3. Do you agree with Professor Jeans’ statement 
that we live in a universe of waves ? 

4. How does man form his world? 

5. Is there a panacea for the present world con- 
ditions ? 

The S'upermind 

1. Do all kinds of healers use the same force? 
Why? 

2. What is heaven? 

3. What is hell? 

4. How did Jesus save us from destructive, dis- 
cordant conditions ? 

5. Why do we pray in the name of Jesus Christ? 

Cheerfulness Heals 

1. How does cheerfulness aid healing? 

2 . Why does a cheerful attitude bring prosperity ? 

3. Why is proper diet conducive to health? 

4. Why do we bless our money and affairs ? 

Love Harmonizes 

1. How does love adjust man’s discords? 



QUESTIONS 


2. Explain the law of gravitation. 

3. How are great souls developed? 

4. Why did Jesus use scientific methods? 

Casting Out Fear 

1. What is the effect of fear on the body? 

2 . How do we cast out fear ? 

3. How do we fulfill the law of our being? 

4. What does perfect love mean to you? 

Spiritual Hearing 

1. How do we hear? 

2. Can everyone hear with the "inner ear"? Ex- 
plain. 

3. Is excessive meditation advisable? Why not? 

4. Explain the importance of spiritual receptivity. 

Light of Life 

1 . What is the ' 'true light’ ’ ? 

2. Why have the discoveries of modern science 
about light failed to aid man in his spiritual de- 
velopment ? 

3. Are light and intelligence one? Explain. 

4. What should be the attitude of Truth students 
in regard to physical science? 

Thought Substance 

1. How are our prayers answered ? 

2. Does asking alone bring abundance into mani- 
festation? 



TEACH US TO PRAY 


3. What is the Spirit of truth? 

4. In what way are the laws of hygiene and diet 
beneficial? 

Intensified Zeal 

1. Explain the office of the faculty of 2:eal. 

2. What is the cause of "old age” ? 

3. How did Jesus overcome greed? 

4. How do we lay up treasures in the heavens? 

The Unreality of Error 

1. Why is error unreal ? 

2. What is the object of man’s existence? 

3. How is the truth revealed to us ? 

4. What is matter? 

f oy Radiates Health 

1, Explain the effect of laughter and joy on 
health, 

2. Where did Solomon turn for judgment? 

3- How is happiness attained? 

4. How do we jfind lasting peace? 

"Selahr 

1 . What does "selah” mean? 

2. Why is "God first” the only way to the con- 
sciousness of Truth ? 

3. How does man demonstrate prosperity? 

4. What is the meaning of the word "Jehovah” ? 


mo 


QUESTIONS 


SpintuaUzing the Intellect 

1. How many minds are there? Explain. 

2. How do we unify all our forces? 

3. Explain the difference between the blessings 
bestowed by Isaac on Jacob and Esau. 

4. What is the intellectual man? 

5. What is the proper relationship between the 
mind and the heart ? The mind and the body? 

6. Explain the principle of tithing. 

The Sevenfold Cleansing 

1 . Why is humility necessary in spiritual healing ? 

2. Why must personal egotism be overcome? 

3 . N ame two important steps in spiritual healing. 

4. What part did Elisha have in the healing of 
Naaman ? 

Prayer and Faith 

1. Define prayer in your own words. 

2. Wliat does faith mean to you ? 

3. Why did Paul admonish us to pray without 
ceasing? 

4. What is meant by true spiritual baptism ? 

The Healing Word 

1. Does the "word” have power to heal? Why? 

2. Wliat is the "only Son of God” ? 

3. What does mean? 

4. Can man forgive sin? How? 


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' Publisher's ^Announcement 

Teach Us to Pray is published by the Unity School of Chris- 
tianity, an independent educational institution devoted to 
teadiing the principles of Christianity and the application 
of these principles to everyday life and affairs. In addition 
to Teach Us to Pray Unity School publishes the following 
other books: 

Beginning Again, by Prank B. Whitney 
Both Riches and Honor, by Annie Eix Militz 
Christ Enthroned in Man, by Cora Fillmore 
Christian Healing, by Charles Fillmore 
Effectual Prayer, by Prances W. Foulks 
God a Present Help, by H. Emilie Cady 
God Is the Answer, by Dana Gatlin 
Have We Lived Before? by Ernest C. Wilson 
How I Used Truth, by H. Emilie Cady 
Jesus Christ Heals, by Charles Fillmore 
Know Thyself, by Richard Lynch 
Lessons in Truth, by H. Emilie Cady 
Letters of Myrtle Fillmore 

Lovingly in the Hands of the Father, by Evelyn Whitell 

Mightier than Circumstance, by Frank B. Whitney 

Mysteries of Genesis, by Charles Fillmore 

Mysteries of John, by Charles Fillmore 

New Ways to Solve Old Problems, by Lowell Fillmore 

Prosperity, by Charles Fillmore 

Prosperity’s Ten Commandments, by Georgiana Tree West 

The Great Physician, by Ernest C. Wilson 

The Sunlit Way, by Ernest C. Wilson 

Talks on Truth, by Charles Fillmore 

Truth Ideas of an M. D., by Dr. C. O. Southard 

The Twelve Powers of Man, by Charles Fillmore 

SffnAx AkbYovI, by Imelda OctaviaShanklin 

Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask, by Zelia M. Walters 

Working with God, by Gardner Hunting 

You and Your Child, by Zelia M. Walters 

You Can Be Healed, by Clara Palmer 

These books cover so many subjects of general and vital interest 
that among them you are sure to find one that meets a need of your 
own or that of a friend. Beautifully bound, gilt stamped, these lovely 
Unity books are priced at |1 each. 


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